The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

> Participants weren’t lazy. They were experienced professionals.

Assuming these professionals were great critical thinkers until the AI came along and changed that is a big stretch.

In my experience, the people who outsource their thinking to LLMs are the same people who outsourced their thinking to podcasts, news articles, Reddit posts, Twitter rants, TikTok videos, and other such sources. LLMs just came along and offered them opinions on demand that they could confidently repeat.

> The scary part is that many users still believed they were thinking critically, because GenAI made them feel smart

I don’t see much difference between this and someone who devours TikTok videos on a subject until they feel like an expert. Same pattern, different sources. The people who outsource their thinking and collect opinions they want to hear just have an easier way to skip straight to the conclusions they want now.

Yeah it's similar to how Facebook is blamed for social malaise. Or how alcohol was blamed before that.

It's always more comfortable for people to blame the thing rather than the person.

More than one thing can be causing problems in a society, and enterprising humans of lesser scruples have a long history of preying on the weaknesses of others for profit.

Enterprising humans have a long history of giving people what they desire, while refraining from judging what's best for them.

Ah yeah, fentanyl drug adulterers, what great benefactors of society.

Screaming "no one is evil, its just markets!" probably helps people who base their lives on exploiting the weak sleep better at night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good

No one desires adulterated fentanyl.