Non-technical people I know are starting to take AI responses to their questions as 100% true fact.

Baeocystin 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

--Charles Babbage

Blind trust in the machine for a certain type of user seems to be endemic since the beginning.

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SoftTalker 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They did the same with Google search results that were just SEO garbage content, too.

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dyauspitr 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s usually right. This isn’t as big of an issue anymore.

	▲	F3nd0 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People taking ‘usually right’ as ‘100% true fact’ sounds like a pretty big issue to me. Of course, it’s the people who must learn to know and mind the distinction, first and foremost.