LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

LLMs are an incredibly powerful tool, that do amazing things. But even so, they aren’t as fantastical as their creators would have you believe.

I wrote this up because I was trying to get my head around why people are so happy to believe the answers LLMs produce, despite it being common knowledge that they hallucinate frequently.

Why are we happy living with this cognitive dissonance? How do so many companies plan to rely on a tool that is, by design, not reliable?