Those are fair points, I didn't mean to imply that there are only negatives, and I don't consider myself to be in the former camp you describe as wanting nothing to do with these "interns". I shouldn't have stuck with the intern analogy at all since it's difficult for me to compare the two, with one being fairly autonomous and the other being totally reliant on a prompter.
The only point I wanted to make was that an LLM's ability and propensity to generate plausible falsehoods should, in my opinion, elicit a much deeper sense of distrust than one feels for an intern, enough so that comparing the two feels a little dangerous. I don't trust an intern to be right about everything, but I trust them to be self aware, and I don't feel like I have to take a magnifying glass to every tidbit of information they provide.
The only point I wanted to make was that an LLM's ability and propensity to generate plausible falsehoods should, in my opinion, elicit a much deeper sense of distrust than one feels for an intern, enough so that comparing the two feels a little dangerous. I don't trust an intern to be right about everything, but I trust them to be self aware, and I don't feel like I have to take a magnifying glass to every tidbit of information they provide.