And if you need another reason, here's a great example of how confident AI looks when spewing absolute bullshit:
I can't tell the difference in tone between this and genuine information. If you can, great! If you can't, maybe you should always check its sources like I do if I can't circumvent the summary completely, which would be easier than going through the summary first and then check it afterwards.
Btw, if you want to check the source for this blunder, it's quite funny if taken as satire: https://wkna49.com/news/former-president-donald-trump-passes-away-following-reported-infection
@Boeing at least trying it to do things is still useful IF it works. I really don't understand why anyone would use it to look up information though. Either you search for the answer in a different way too, in which case asking AI first was just extra work. Or you still don't know for sure what the answer is, in which case there was no point in asking at all.
@NerdyPotato it was helping me when I was trying for example to find the cheapest way to move from Malaysia to this Croatian island. Had I not used its help, I'd need to be looking at multiple sites one after the other, whilst it is fast checking everywhere - not everywhere, and that is an important detail !!! - but for some things it is helpful.
@Boeing that's indeed kind of a mix between looking up information and doing things for you (checking hundreds of comparison sites). And if you then book the trip yourself, you know for sure it's correct. It may still not be the absolute cheapest one, but you found an affordable one and that's the real goal.
@thepeculiarpanda yep, this blunder was the work of that group too. Apparently it's extremely easy to manipulate AI systems. They only inserted satire that people would check in different places for sure, but if it's that easy, it's sure to be used by advisaries for election interference and war propoganda too, to name just a few things. And those may not convince people to verify the message.
@NerdyPotato The whole thing is a catastrophe in the making, especially with them upping the surveillance state the way they have over here. It's getting very 1984 very quickly.
@thepeculiarpanda yep, the EU is desperately trying to get AI analyse everything on everyone's screens. It was shut down a few times, but they just keep trying until it passes and they are close to a deal now.
For now the proposal is to automatically notify police about child abuse, but once that works it's bound to be expanded for planning terrorist attacks, attending protests and just cricitizing the government in any way. Let's hope there are so many false reports that police begs them to stop it before it gets to that stage.
@Captainjackass yep, it will never admit it doesn't know something. It will just make something up and confidently tell you that's a fact, which is why it's absolutely useless for information requests.
