Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: Whether LLMs are untrustworthy is a red herring. They convert statements from an ...

Whether LLMs are untrustworthy is a red herring. They convert statements from an epistemology of showmanship into a structure that replicates the epistemology of exposition—sequential arguments

They are only untrustworthy if you’re operating within the epistemology of exposition—the argument has to hold up—but that’s not how modern media works. There showmanship is truth. LLMs replicate the aesthetics of a textual argument as performance, reducing it to a prop for showmanship epistemology