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To be fair for a gish gallop style of bad faith argument the way religious people like to use LLMs are probably a good match. If all you want is a high number of arguments it is probably easy to produce those with an LLM. Not to mention that most of their arguments have been repeated countless times anyway so the training data probably has them in large numbers. It is not as if they ever cared if their arguments were any good anyway.
I agree and recognized that. I'm more emotionally upset about it tbh. The debates aren't for the debaters, it's to hopefully disillusion and remove indoctrinated fears from those on the fence willing to read them. It's oft repeated there when people ask "what's the point, same stupid debate for centuries." Well religions unfortunately persist, and haven't lost any ground globally. Gained, actually. Not our fault they have no new ideas.