Dunning-Kruger for everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvmlb1S6ogE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot - podcast
time: 3 min 57 sec
Dunning-Kruger for everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvmlb1S6ogE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot - podcast
time: 3 min 57 sec
Effectively, what LLMs do is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for “prompts” to indicate your area(s) of interest, then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.
Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.
Baldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con[1] that you might appreciate, if you haven’t read it yet. :)
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ ↩︎
I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.