I have a bunch of friends who don't get along well with each other, but I tend to get along with all of them. I believe this is about focusing on the good in people, and being able to ignore the bad. I think it's the same with tools. To me AI is an out-of-this-world, OP tool. Is it perfect? No. But it's amazing! The good I get out of it far surpasses its mistakes. Almost like people. People "hallucinate" and say wrong things all the time. But that doesn't make them useless or bad. So, whoever is having issues with AIs is probably having an issue dealing with people as well :) Learn how to deal with people, and learn how to deal with AI -- the single biggest skill you'll need in 21st century.
Not trying to dismiss your anecdote, as both can very much coexist separately, and I actually think your analogy is spot on for LLMs! But it did make me think of something.
I once was in an environment where A got along with everyone, and B was hated by everyone else except for A. This wasn't because B saw qualities in A that no one else recognized; it was just that A was oblivous to/wasn't personally affected by all the valid reasons why everyone else disliked B. A to an extent thought of themselves as being able to see the good in B, but in reality they simply lacked the understanding of the effects of B's behavior on others.
Agree. Had the same thought when I saw her complaint about getting the publication year of the article wrong. If she had a grad student who could read, understand and summarize the article well, but inadvertently said it was from 2023 instead of 2025, (hopefully) she wouldn’t call that grad student unintelligent.
