> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2026 at 7:06 PM > From: [email protected] > To: "Jean Louis" <[email protected]> > Cc: "emacs-orgmode Mailinglist" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Literate LLM programming? [Re: Is org-mode accepting AI-assisted > babel ob- code updates?] > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 02:41:09AM +0300, Jean Louis wrote: > > On 2026-03-29 11:26, [email protected] wrote: > > > I think this example shows pretty well where the lie is in the > > > current wave of AI. It's not the "hallucinations", it is the > > > fact that they are wired to "talk" to us as if they knew what > > > they're doing. > > > > The assertion that AI systems are inherently deceptive due to their > > conversational design—particularly the perception that they "know" what they > > are saying—is a common but misinformed critique. This perspective conflates > > the output behavior of large language models (LLMs) with intent or > > truthfulness, which are attributes of human cognition, not machine-generated > > text. > > You don't need to explain to me what LLMs are, thankyouverymuch. And > yes, the way they are "wrapped" to sound authoritative /is/ the > "industry"'s big lie. > > Read on priming (in that wonderful "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by > Daniel Kahneman) to know why that works. > > They are desperate to generate sufficient cash flow before their > bubble bursts -- the situation is not that different from 2000s > dotcom (just two orders of magnitude bigger). They will kill for > it.
It is surely. > Cheers > -- > tomás > >
