Storing media locally is great on the off chance your internet goes out, in addition if there’s shows that RD hasn’t cached yet and have no seeders.

Exactly. It’s great for that, as long as you know what you want it to say and can verify it.

The issue is people who don’t critically think about the data they get from it, who I assume are the same type to forward Facebook memes as fact.

It’s a larger problem, where convenience takes priority over actually learning and understanding something yourself.

This. Being human doesn’t excuse you being a piece of shit and a danger to others.

Tinfoil hat me goes straight to: make the population dumber and they’re easier to manipulate.

It’s insane how people take LLM output as gospel. It’s a TOOL just like every other piece of technology.