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Human minds have the ability to reason and to evaluate sources by different authorities. It is why some children are able to obey their parents while ignoring scammers on TV commercials, shouting at them to buy stuff.

We are also able to apply lived experience to our reasoning. That is why we can accurately answer a question about whether to drive or walk to the car wash. Or how we could immediately see how many "r"s are in "strawberry".

LLMs, being "glorified autocomplete" don't have a real way to separate truth from lies, or critically evaluate sources of information. Humans can absorb information in various ways, such as our "classic five senses" which inform our daily lives and motions, or by absorbing information via reading, hearing, seeing, etc., or by inferring and reasoning and being "guided by the Spirit" in a more metaphysical way where LLMs would fail.

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