Andy Borowitz is a liberal satirist. Here is something he wrote in a recent satirical piece:
HOUSTON (The Borowitz Report)—The US Senate race in Texas got uglier on Thursday as Republican Ken Paxton accused Democrat James Talarico of lacking the requisite criminal record to represent the Lone Star State in Washington.
“With all due respect, my opponent doesn’t have the cojones to go on a crime spree,” he told a crowd of supporters in Houston. “James Talarico never saw a law he didn’t abide.”
Drawing a stark contrast between himself and Talarico, Paxton said, “My criminal record is as big as Texas itself.”
So what happens when you "fact check" this report using Google?
The AI algorithm used Borowitz's own piece, which has been quoted and shared on social media extensively and therefore must be true, to verify the story!
(I will delete any comments that use this post to go on a political rant. The post is about AI, not politics.)
The trust in AI is really weird to me, especially with it being well-known to lie all the time with just as much confidence as when it's mostly correct. You can't tell the difference from its replies, so you have to look it up elsewhere to confirm, which defeats the whole purpose of asking AI in the first place.
I'm sure there are some legitimate uses, but most of it is just a waste of time, electricity, water and clean air.
