Obviously, it depends on context. When talking to someone live you can pick up on subtle hints such as tone of voice, or where they look, or how they gesticulate, or a myriad other signals which give you a hint to their knowledge gaps. If you're communicating via text, the signals change. Furthermore, as you interact with people more often you understand them better and refine your understanding of them. LLMs always forget and “reset” and are in flux. They aren’t as consistent. Plus, they don’t grow with you and pick up on your signals and wants.
It’s incredibly worrying that it needs to be explained again and again that LLMs are different from people, do not behave like people, and should not be compared to people or interacted like people, because they are not people.
Interestingly your description of social cues you expect to pick up on are the exact sort of social cues I struggle with. If someone says something, generally speaking I expect it to be true unless there is an issue with it that suggests otherwise.
I suppose the wide range of negative and positive experiences people seem to have working with LLMs is related to the wide range of expectations people have for their interactions in general.
It’s incredibly worrying that it needs to be explained again and again that LLMs are different from people, do not behave like people, and should not be compared to people or interacted like people, because they are not people.