The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

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446 points walterbell | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source

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BariumBlue ◴[03 Apr 25 22:29 UTC] No.43576242[source]▶

Good point in the post about confidence - most people equate confidence with accuracy - and since AIs always sound confident, they always sound correct

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rglover ◴[03 Apr 25 23:19 UTC] No.43576627[source]▶

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Yep. Last night I was asking ChatGPT (4o) to help me generate a simple HTML canvas that users could draw on. Multiple times, it spoke confidently of its not even kind of working solution (copying the text from the chat below):

- "Final FIXED & WORKING drawing.html" (it wasn't working at all)

- "Full, Clean, Working Version (save as drawing.html)" (not working at all)

- "Tested and works perfectly with: Chrome / Safari / Firefox" (not working at all)

- "Working Drawing Canvas (Vanilla HTML/JS — Save this as index.html)" (not working at all)

- "It Just Works™" (not working at all)

The last one was so obnoxious I moved over to Claude (3.5 Sonnet) and it knocked it out in 3-5 prompts.

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1. numpad0 ◴[04 Apr 25 08:20 UTC] No.43579586[source]▶

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IME, it's better to just delete erroneous responses and fix prompts until it works.

They are much better at fractally subdividing and interpreting inputs like a believer of a religion, than at deconstructing and iteratively improving things like an engineert. It's waste of token count trying to have such discussions with an LLM.

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