Simon Willison on Nostr: I wonder how much people's opinions of LLMs are shaped by the first application of ...

I wonder how much people's opinions of LLMs are shaped by the first application of them that they encounter

If your first ever mental model of LLMs is that they're for plagiarism and cheating on homework, I can see how that would cloud your overall opinion compared to if you start out by using them to help debug a weird error message

I'd love to see more research around how people think about and understand these things