Dramatically accelerating the erosion of knowledge and the ability to seek information and develop critical thinking skills.

People no longer look for different sources of information (a trend started with social media but now expanded and accelerated by LLMs) but taken the first thing they see as gospel truth.

Businesses and bad actors are realising this and are flooding "scraped spaces" with false, misleading or flattering information which is rote copied by ChatGPT et al nd given a veneer of credibility because it's labelled as "intelligent".