Comment by dylan604
To me, it's the natural result of gaining popularity that enough people have started to use after the hype train rolled through and are now giving honest feedback. Real honest feedback can feel like a slap in the face when all you have had is overwhelming positive feedback from those aboard the hype train.
The writing has been on the wall with so called hallucinations where LLMs just make stuff up that the hype was way out over its skiis. The examples of lawyers being fined for unchecked LLM outputs being presented as fact type of stories will continue to take the shine off and hopefully some of the raw gungho nature will slow down a bit.
I saw an article today from the BBC where travellers are using LLMs to plan their vacations and getting into trouble going places (sometimes dangerously remote ones) to visit landmarks that don't even exist:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250926-the-perils-of-le...
I'm mildly bearish on the human capacity to learn from its mistakes and have a feeling in my gut that we've taken a massive step backwards as civilization.