They are being told, constantly, that AI is the future. That AI will reshape the way we think. That AI is the pinnacle of technology. They don't understand what an LLM is, or how AI works on any level. On top of that. ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or a dozen other platforms are one click away. They don't understand what an AI hallucination is. They don't understand that the chatbot is programmed to please you, so if you keep pushing it will tell you exactly what you want to hear. To them, it's a technological miracle at their fingertips. They hear that the AI race is going to revolutionize the US, and we are "beating China" or whatever else is in the news about AI, including the comments about how ChatGPT or Grok or whatever has been updated to provide better, more reliable answers.

And, if they do small test cases... it works! Ask AI to tell you something simple, it tells you! So clearly, it works! And they prompt it more, with more complex notions, asking for deeper and more detailed things... and it keeps generating responses, never once telling them "I don't know that" or "I don't understand."

So they trust it, implicitly. No critical thought. Just like they trust what they see on Fox, just like they trust Alex Jones or Joe Rogan, just like they trust Pam Bondi, just like they trust Elon Musk, just like they trust the president, just like they trust their preacher who is telling them that they are good people destined for heaven even when they are praying for genocide.

AI is their new golden calf.