AI vigilantes will be on their way in 3...2...1...

answer, you don't know if it's correct. It's just AI slop.

It's a grave new world.

I remember that the Bush/Cheney administration shipped in plane loads of pallets of brand new US currency to pay for ‘stuff’ in the immediate aftermath of the Iraq war. They had a twenty something, never done anything like this administration appointee in charge. Literal tons of cash disappeared. Shrugs all around.

Can we not let them get away with this shit this time? I know they’re going to do it. Kushner is already on it, I’m sure. But if we win in 2026 and ‘28, can we please, please go back after these robbers?

You didn't identify the AI used.

Since you didn't say you checked every single detail of its answer, it's safest to assume you didn't.

Which means you offloaded factchecking to anyone reading that AI slop, taking zero responsibility for dumping possible misinformation onto DUers.

And by not identifying the AI tool, you made it impossible for anyone wanting to see if that AI would give the same answer twice to check it.

Nothing reliable. I guess. I think the AI's are unreliable when you ask it for assumptions. Otherwise it is just a large search engine.

From what I can tell is that the questions that people ask and the responses is how it learns. But making assumptions and giving advice, that (to me) is like a teenager asking his buddy for advice. More than likely not going to be that good.

are infamous for citations of articles from real papers, magazines, etc. that either don't exist or don't say what the chatbot claims they say.

Chatbots are NOT "just a large search engine" - though the AI companies would love you to believe they are - because they hallucinate, fabricate sources and fabricate quotes.

I've been trying to explain this to DUers so they understand why chatbots can never be trusted. One of those threads, from November of 2024:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100219775018

for liberals to use AI tools trained illegally on data sets of stolen intellectual property, owned and controlled by AI companies supporting Trump, that generate results that can never be trusted without careful checking because they can hallucinate at any time, and the accuracy of the entire result can never be guaranteed from accuracy of part of the result.

Are you taking the word of AI Karen on that, without fact-checking reliable sources?

They are worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/@FatherPhi

I think this is why the owners of Claude limited to what the DOW could do with it.. They are good at research but that is really it..

Love posts like this

and later as a teen I curled up with the Encyclopedia Britannica. But not so much any more.

that question, if you wanted an answer here.

I don't doubt that you're intelligent. I don't doubt that you could do a deep dive into that question if you wanted to.

But I doubt that it's a good idea to count on chatbots for information.

I don't doubt that posting AI results normalizes it and encourages others to use AI. And because the tech is both fundamentally unreliable and fundamentally unethical, I think it's a very bad idea to normalize it and treat it as harmless.

And using it does dumb users down. Which is also a bad idea if you hope to avoid cognitive decline. As we all do. It's better for your brain to look things up and write your own reply than to have a chatbot do it for you.

they wanted to give me and not everything. But that was in the 50's and 60's. Pre internet, pre women's rights, pre liberal thought patterns.

I learned how to search for information from the libraries and books. But even those have a slant.

Most people don't even know how to do a search. How to type in a question in the search bar of a browser. Even when they do, they only get data from one source that the browser search engine wanted supply.

So far I have found that Claude does seem to do more than just one source in its searching.

The growing vigilante action here on DU by a handful of busybodies is gonna destroy it. It really disturbs me at how fast it has taken over.

I didn't expect a doctoral treatise when I read your post. You brought up an interesting bit of history relevant to current news. That was a good contribution whether it passed the purity tests or not.

system is for everyone to be in total agreement. It use to work so very good for the right until the Epstein thing happened.

and he got 3 yrs in Leavenworth prison.

For example, a student of mine (his family) owned a civil engineering company in Iraq and has bid to repair a major bridge for a reasonable amount.

US authorities rejected their bid for a US company with no regional experience to demolish the old bridge and build a new one for expotentially more.

So I did a quick, shallow wade into dangerous waters to check the source of your joke: Simply by repeating it.
"Oddball hauled it away in his tank."

The answer in DDG's AI "Search Assist" was as follows: