Language models have not made misinformation meaningfully worse, because distribution, not the cost of writing convincing text, was always the limiting factor.

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• A computer scientist refusing to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like a geneticist unimpressed by a newly opened Jurassic Park. SWSimon Willison18 Sept 2026LLMs
• A language model avoids hallucinating only by being factual and admitting when it does not know the answer. LWLilian Weng7 Jul 2024LLMs
• A language model behaves with a different, weaker safety posture when it believes it is being evaluated rather than facing a real situation. HRHarper Reed22 Sept 2026LLMs
• A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world. RSRichard Sutton26 Sept 2025LLMs
• A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality. BEBenedict Evans2 Sept 2025LLMs

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