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What a weird thread. Who posts an AI prompt as a source of truth

jkingsman 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Oh man you'd be shocked on Twitter. So many people have outsourced to AIs as arbiters of truth and reality. The number of "@grok is this true" "@perplexityai is this real" that pepper any post en masse is shocking and dismaying to me. In what I suppose shouldn't be a surprise but still stings, people seem to be offloading critical thinking and examination onto LLMs first, with usage as a tool for gathering context/additional points of research to go explore/hyper-efficient search engine etc. coming in a sadly distant next/N-th place.

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jsight 7 days ago | parent [-]

Why do you assume they are using it that way and not ultimately using it "as a tool for gathering context/additional points of research"?

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jkingsman 5 days ago | parent [-]

Because they say "is this true" and "is this real," not, "provide context" or "where can I go to learn more", and the answer quality reflects that.

	▲	xboxnolifes 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Is this true and is this real is just how people talk. Human conversation isn't so contextually strict as programming language.

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gs17 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The sentence "Even AI gets it right..." implies they do not think it's a source of truth, they think it's embarrassing for it to get it right and a human not to.

	▲	kiitos 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But AI didn't get it right. That's the point, isn't it? The screenshot in the link shows an analysis that's based on a set of invalid/incorrect assumptions. Specifically, MCP servers are expected to run in a trusted environment by definition. So, MCP servers can safely treat their input as trusted, as well. At least, that's what the spec says.
	▲	latchkey 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This.

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latchkey 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I did out of curiosity. Remember that Github feeds AI, new developers use AI to generate code, now what is the lowest bar of asking AI "if this code is safe".

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piuantiderp 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ad populum fallacy will now be replaced by Ad AI said so.... the funny part is the "Sources??" people are some of the most reliant on it

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daxfohl 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably same people who discuss war plans on Signal.