Post #4293737
2026-07-20 00:09 UTC
Woohoo! We really did ourselves in with this one!
"Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong."
_AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found_
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study
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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social 2026-07-26 16:25
I just asked a local AI (Jan, v3.5 4B) using to examine my website and it misspelled it. When I corrected it via a second prompt it apologized. It's not alive, this is like your search engine apologizing. This is all marketing nonsense. Oh and also, remember, it literally misspelled my website *which I had typed into the query*. I have no idea how people are accomplishing anything with this tool. I just asked it a test legal question and it got it completely wrong and cited an old 1978 case.