The tentacles run deep.

 

Yes they do, and yet there are people who just seem to think that AI and other search engines are just fine. Puzzling.

 

I use Wikipedia a BUNCH. So much so, that I actually donate to them, so I guess I am a Soros too.
They have always been left-leaning, but it's no big deal.
Don't know how they do it, but absolutely any encyclopedia subject will magically, somehow, include a tiny 'climate-change' lecture at the bottom of it.
Great way to lighten up a serious subject!

 

I posted this elsewhere but it rings true here as well,

"AI" is becoming more and more prevalent, everyone has probably seen it somewhere even if they did not know what they were looking at.

However, AI is not actually intelligent, it is simply a predictive algorithm that creates answers based on the input it finds and like any predictive algorithm, the more input, the more precise it becomes.
The problem comes when the input is inaccurate, because the output will then be inaccurate and eventually it will be precisely inaccurate.

AI does not actually think for itself, it collects data and turns it out as a finished product.
The problem is not the AI program necessarily but the data and sources that it collects that data from.
That source would be the internet... now I am sure that nobody here believes everything they read on the internet... so why should we listen to a computer program that takes all that information and tries to make a factual statement with it?

There is plenty of bad (dangerous) advice out there and more being added every day.
AI collects the data and runs an algorithm that basically boils down to percentages... if it is a yes/no answer, then it will base its answer on the % of yes and the % of no answers available in the data source.
Nowhere in the process is a quality control being run in terms of whether or not the information is valid/good/safe.

So basically garbage in... garbage out.


TLDR: I trust AI about as much as I trust gas station sushi

 

I use the Dewey Decimal System. The info is more accurate, but outdated.

 

AI is replacing search engines. Grok is good. ChatGPT is good. Wiki has also been tied to the CIA.