Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs? by al_borland on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:11PM (#47433968)

Some of this might depend on the source.

I’ve seen some people quote AI like you’re saying. However, when I preface something with “ChatGPT said…”, my intention is to convey to the listener that they should take it with a grain of salt, as it might be completely bull shit. I suppose I should consider who I’m talking to when I make that assumption.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs? by jazzyjackson on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:03AM (#47434794)

it’s a slightly orthogonal problem to using the active voice of “XYZ says…”, it’s treating the text continuation engine as an “other” that may know better than they do, playing into sci fi conceptions of AI having its personal positronic brain or whatever, having its own ideas and deciding to carve a horse out of driftwood.

It’s not quite anthropomorphizing either that’s the issue, need a word for “treating it as tho it were a machine conscious that exists alongside humanity*”, how does cyborgropomorphizing sound

   * and not merely a markov chain running in Sam Altman’s closet

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs? by dalke on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:15AM (#47453042)

You might consider prefixing with 'ChatGPT claims…' as a clearer expression of uncertainty.

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