AI Error Rates 2026: How Often AI Gets Facts Wrong -- And What It Costs

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5. Another way to look at it

(at the risk of insulting some): even under the best of circumstances, an LLM's reponses will never be better than average, since it's producing them by probabilities based on averaging. So if your knowledge, intelligence, or verbal skills are below average, it might be useful to at least see what AI comes up with as a starting point.

Note how all this dovetails with corporate goals of minimizing labor costs not only by replacing workers but by replacing highly-qualified, higher-paid humans with less-qualified, lower-paid humans. This means, among other things, that a below-average employee who might already have hit their "Peter Principle" maximum position could conceivably move up another notch – AI thus making it possible to have more below-average employees at higher levels!

(For anyone not familiar with The Peter Principle, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle .)