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To think there should be a public warning notice against gathering information from AI

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soupyspoon · 30/08/2025 10:19

Time and time again someone will confidently post something they found on AI/Chat ABC or whatever they are about a subject and its wrong

It frightens me that people are just blindly using information they gather on the internet, it was bad enough before, but I frequently find AI to be wrong (most recently with something so benign as vanilla bean paste amounts...mundane life here)

I think there should be a public safety announcement quite frankly.

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Millytante · 30/08/2025 10:40

I hadn’t noticed that a Google search is now offering AI bumf in first place, until I read a response to a query about a historical detail (during WWII) on telly recently.
The AI answer declared that phenomenon X was a feature of life in Dublin ‘under the German occupation’, but subsequently disappeared after Britain ‘liberated Ireland.’
Wow, that robot has a firm take on wartime history.

Breathtaking stuff. You’d be a great hit with your teachers if you nicked any of that shite for your history homework.
I really want to disable this bothersome feature on Google but can’t find a way to do it. Poor old Wiki, being pushed out of its first place, and even Wiki was a risky proposition many a time.

Maybe this pushy AI business will result in a mass return to public libraries, after a few exam boards notice all its wacky misinformation being regurgitated by students!

CeciliaDuckiePond · 30/08/2025 10:32

You've nailed it when you said 'it was bad enough before' - it's only an extension of people quoting stuff they've found by Googling that's incorrect or unverified, or you might even say, pre-internet, people confidently repeating something a random in the pub has told them.

The responsibility has always lain with the individual to exercise their critical thinking and check their facts - nowadays we do at least have reputable and verifiable sources at our fingertips and we need to use common sense. If it's a medical question, for example, look at the BMJ or the NHS or BUPA or similar, not 'Jodie's 100 top wellbeing tips' on an obscure blog or 'How to cure headaches forever' in the Daily Mail.