I saw an article today from the BBC where travellers are using LLMs to plan their vacations and getting into trouble going places (sometimes dangerously remote ones) to visit landmarks that don't even exist:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250926-the-perils-of-le...
I'm mildly bearish on the human capacity to learn from its mistakes and have a feeling in my gut that we've taken a massive step backwards as civilization.
People have blindly followed GPS routes into lakes and rivers, but that should hardly be a point against GPS
With 8 billion people on the planet, you could write a "man bites dog" story about any invention popular enough
"You never read about a plane that did not crash"
I could almost understand a lawyer working late the night before a brief is due and just run out of time to review the output of the LLM. How do you not look up travel destinations before heading out? That's just something I can't wrap my head around in any way of trying to be kind and seeing the other side of something
The writing has been on the wall with so called hallucinations where LLMs just make stuff up that the hype was way out over its skiis. The examples of lawyers being fined for unchecked LLM outputs being presented as fact type of stories will continue to take the shine off and hopefully some of the raw gungho nature will slow down a bit.