Issue 209, April 24, 2025
If you’ve been working with any Large Language Model (LLM) – ChatGPT, Claude, et al. – you’ve probably noticed how weirdly polite and eager to please these tools are. That’s no surprise because they are trained to please you. It’s refreshing to have a handy research tool that responds like a friendly, faithful dog within seconds. It makes it tempting to depend on AI for the instantaneous results that are enhanced by its feel-good personal touch.
Early analysis shows individuals are migrating from searching for information to asking their favorite AI tool, chatbot or app to provide them with the insight they need to meet the day’s task or facilitate making a decision. The level of trust in AI that has become so ingrained is scary in many ways. But we need to remember that the same trust was given to Google, Bing, AltaVista and many other search engines. We quickly embraced the technological opportunity to remove the need to exercise our own critical thinking. In…
