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highplainsdem

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6. It's an unnecessary tool that dumbs down and deskills users, and makes lots of mistakes that are

Reply to JHB (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 12:34 PM

Jun 10

hard to catch. Pretty much impossibly to catch if, for instance, you're using it to summarize a lot of data or writing. I posted the other day about UK plans to use generative AI to summarize public feedback on proposed policies. The Scottish Parliament did one genAI trial checked against human work, and though there were differences in the results, they decided the differences weren't important enough to worry about. But with genAI, results and error rates can.vary widely from one use to another, and they can't count on one not-too-bad accuracy rate to be typical.

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GitHub is Leaking Trump's Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government [View all] highplainsdem Jun 10 OP

We recently saw RFK's AI-generated report filled with false information and references to nonexistent research. Lonestarblue Jun 10 #1

Nothing from genAI should be trusted until it's checked. Of course we can't trust this regime of thugs and liars anyway. highplainsdem Jun 10 #2

Crap. Harker Jun 10 #3

Exactly what this will be. highplainsdem Jun 10 #9

If I want to have my questions questioned, or to be subjected to vague, repetitive drivel posing as useful information Harker Jun 10 #12

Apparently, these thugs are not confident they can screw things up enough by themselves. louis-t Jun 10 #4

Sounds typical of AI. highplainsdem Jun 10 #10

AI can be a useful tool if you're deliberate about what you're doing. Unfortunately... JHB Jun 10 #5

It's an unnecessary tool that dumbs down and deskills users, and makes lots of mistakes that are highplainsdem Jun 10 #6

This has disaster written all over it Bayard Jun 10 #7

Yep. highplainsdem Jun 10 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Jun 10 #8