If you wanted to refer to this rant in a professional context, a cleaned up version is now up! The design of LLM chatbots doesn't only make hallucination inevitable - it makes the user less likely to spot errors and react to them. The path of least resistance is drawn thru thoughtless copy-pasting.

one complicated thought: out of the box/on the free tier, chatgpt is a dangerous product for the majority of users, in that it is capable of doing real harm, mostly invisibly. it takes a _huge_ amount of time and effort to resolve into a useful tool and the system basically fights you the whole way.

Computers should be able to do anything you tell them to but that process should be at least a little difficult.