Comment by walterbell 5 days ago
> build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner
A few thousand years of pre-LLM primary sources remain available for evaluation by humans and LLMs.
> how are future generations supposed to know which is real
Reality/truth/history has always been an expensive pursuit in the face of evolving pollutants.
This is literally how the Odyssey was passed down for the 2000 years before the printing press was invented.
Every work had multiple versions. All versions were different. Some versions were diametrically opposed to others.
Have a look at Bible scholarship to see just _how_ divergent texts can become by nothing more than scribe errors.
99.9999999% sure that was their point? Why else would they bring up that particular work?
Symbols can help, https://www.weather.gov/images/safety/rip/Rip_Currents_Sign4...
You and I remember pre-AI famous works. "Hey, I'm pretty sure Odysseus took a long time to get home". Somebody goes and prints 50 different AI-generated versions of the _Odyssey_, how are future generations supposed to know which is real and which is fake?