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What CD wrote is worth repeating in full (post 47):

I have not found any of several models that I have tried to be very discerning with its searches. It will often take just the most recent web posting and treat that data as gospel truth, no matter how wrong or irrelevant it might be. AI is something like a fool. It asserts righteously that it knows the correct answer when it is not even close. It would do better to shut up and leave some doubt as to its worth rather to openly display how incorrect it often is. It requires very careful queries and even more careful review and editing. Not ready for prime time. IMHO

AI's non-human foundation of zeros and ones is a mile wide and an inch deep, and then it lies when it goes into "deep" mode. Its data pool merely becomes broader in order to "prove" its response.

Or it might even generate contrary results, but that'll be presented as the truth as well.

There's something familiar about all of this.

One day, butter and eggs are going to kill you, then the next day -- good eats. But not before margarine and Egg Beaters "$aturated" the market.

It truly is modeling the "discernment" of fools, like those who are convinced they know the truth because they didn't just listen to CNN, they tuned to CBS, ABC, and "MS NOW" as well. If pressed, they can grab more from the NYT and the WSJ.

AI = vast bureaucracy of knowledge. With so many sources and way stops, AI and its developers can then claim no responsibility for the distortions and mayhem and death of trust.

I suppose they expect that "Caveat inquisitor" is going to provide blanket immunity for all the lies run amok.

The Good News is that a Jenga tower can only be built so high before it comes crashing down. My human brain observes that this happened 40 years ago:

AI Overview (😉)
The record for the tallest Jenga tower built under the standard game rules is 40 complete levels plus two blocks into the 41st, achieved by Robert Grebler in 1985. More recently, different types of records for Jenga stacking have been set, including the most blocks stacked horizontally on a single vertical block, with Tian Rui achieving 3,149 blocks in April 2025.