Post #1553000
2026-03-26 13:41 UTC
For instance, US government websites have presumably long been regarded as reliable, and given additional weight. That's emphatically no longer the case, when government sites are publishing propaganda, promoting pseudoscience, & suppressing or rewriting history.
Our deference to the presumed authority and impartiality of government communiques or 'serious’ news media is itself a problem, of course, but it's one that is multiplied a hundredfold by LLM regurgitation.
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 13:45
LLMs are essentially gullible. And many people, even otherwise smart people, are gullible enough to believe that "AI" distillations of facts are trustworthy. It's a problem of gullibility compounded. But there's also an entire industry that's devoted to trying to convince us NOT to be skeptical of AI, not to see it for what it is -- an often-naive statistical model that can and will increasingly be gamed by bad actors. 6/