Now a days people refer to AI instantly for an answer. Maybe it’s a problem they could have solved within 10min in their head or a question they could have done an internet search on and read a few forums to figure out. However, now people go straight to AI which is known to give many many wrong answers.
I know a couple people that fit this bill and now I almost completely disregard what they say. We’ll even be talking face to face and they’ll ask AI something from our conversation in real time.
He asked you for that exact reason… but then you gave him an answer he didn’t want. He may or may not have known what answer he wanted but as soon as you gave it he knew he wanted it to be something else. The quickest way to get a second opinion, was to ask the LLM.
If it had hallucinated the answer he wanted, he would have demanded going that route, because the AI said so, even if it was literally impossible.
And in his mind, this reinforced the AI as being correct, so he’s will be more likely to blindly accept it’s responses in the future.
Confirmation bias is one hell of a drug and AI is our supplier. It’ll be our downfall