I agree completely. I'm as skeptical as anyone else about AI/ML-but IMHO, the criticism that "now we won't know what's true" is a tacit admission that we've already given up on critical thinking. In this regard, I honestly think ChatGPT et al. has potential to be a net positive, by virtue of its incorrectness: Maybe it'll force people to question things that they wouldn't have felt the need to otherwise.

It'll get pretty tedious to have to check every little factoid spewed by an LLM. At some point you'll get used to it and stop checking. It would be interesting to see the distribution of how long this takes for a population sample.

I‘d argue that you need to fact check every little piece of info on the internet anyway.