It's time to move on from this outdated understanding of what AI models do. Agentic AI is not just fancy autocomplete. The models can pull data, write code to analyze it, verify claims, create audit trails, etc. It's not error-proof and vigilance is essential, but it's not the ChatGPT of 2024-2025.
Brendan Bartanen
The problem with using an LLM to write social science is that all it can do is scrape/weight/summarize reorganize text that's been used in relation to the topic - even if that training set is rife with mis & dis-information. It's quality neutral regurgitation. Hence the cell phone conclusion.
