I completely agree - I personally love that there’s so many Open Source AI tools out there.

The scary part is (similar to what we experienced with DeepSeek’s web interface) that its extremely easy for these corporations to manipulate, or censor information.

I should have clarified my concern - I believe we need to revisit critical thinking as a society (whole other topic) and especially so when it comes to tools like this.

Ensuring everyone using it, is aware of what it does, its flaws, how to process its output, and its potential for abuse. Similar to internet safety training for kids in the mid-2000s.

Yeah it’s just escalating the issue due to its universal availability. It’s being used in lieu of Google by many people, who blindly trust whatever it spits out.

If it had a high technological floor of entry, it wouldn’t be as influential to the general public as it is.

Exactly. It’s great for that, as long as you know what you want it to say and can verify it.

The issue is people who don’t critically think about the data they get from it, who I assume are the same type to forward Facebook memes as fact.

It’s a larger problem, where convenience takes priority over actually learning and understanding something yourself.

This. Being human doesn’t excuse you being a piece of shit and a danger to others.

Tinfoil hat me goes straight to: make the population dumber and they’re easier to manipulate.

It’s insane how people take LLM output as gospel. It’s a TOOL just like every other piece of technology.