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jmclnxyesterday at 8:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

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


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Baeocystinyesterday at 8:33 PM

"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.

SoftTalkeryesterday at 8:22 PM

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

dyauspitryesterday at 8:44 PM

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

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