• Deiskos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Confident bullshit wins over long-winded but factually correct explanations.

    Incidentally, same reason chatgpt became so popular - it’s optimized for sounding confident over being correct.

    • quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Not the reason. It is an attribute it has, but the reason it’s popular is it’s ability to quickly summarize data rather than having to dig through many sources.