The fallacy of the middle is a poison that extremists with power and media reach use to kill productive discourse.

People who don't care about the distinction between truth and falsehood understand this very well, and use it to its full potential. After all, the half-way point between truth and a wild, brazen, self-serving lie is... A self-serving lie.

The media has been largely complicit in this (Because controversy sells), but now we're getting this crap cemented in AI models. Wonderful.

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The promise that hackers are making is that these systems will enhance our knowledge and understanding. The reality that they have delivered in a bullshit generator which serves its operators.