alt Hacker News> Perhaps it will make patent trolling a bit harder because it is easier to look up existing work and to check if an idea is obvious?
Haha, funny :)
No, it'll be like the rest of the industries that use more AI, they'll spend the same amount of effort (as little as possible) and won't validate anything, and provide worse service, not better. AIslop is everywhere, and seemingly unavoidable for companies to use more and more to cut more corners.
The validation point is real. We tested this with AI presentation tools specifically - gave 6 of them the same prompt and fact-checked every claim against primary sources. Best accuracy was 44%. Most were under 20%.
The pattern was consistent: the tools produce confident, well-formatted output that looks thoroughly researched. But more than half the statistics were either distorted or completely fabricated. The worst part was finding the same fake stats appearing across multiple tools - not because they independently verified anything, but because they all absorbed the same bad data from training.
The productivity gains from AI are real, but so is the validation cost. People just aren't accounting for it.