Comment by zdragnar

Comment by zdragnar 17 hours ago

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.

dylan604 17 hours ago

I could almost understand a lawyer working late the night before a brief is due and just run out of time to review the output of the LLM. How do you not look up travel destinations before heading out? That's just something I can't wrap my head around in any way of trying to be kind and seeing the other side of something

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glandium 13 hours ago

> How do you not look up travel destinations before heading out?
From the layman's perspective, they did. That's the whole problem.

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blibble 15 hours ago

because people have had their entire lives to get used to the idea that computers are reliable (sans Microsoft software)
no-one wants stochastic computers

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alickz 16 hours ago

People have blindly followed GPS routes into lakes and rivers, but that should hardly be a point against GPS

With 8 billion people on the planet, you could write a "man bites dog" story about any invention popular enough

"You never read about a plane that did not crash"

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