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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MIKE MILLER on Wed Feb 12 10:09:00 2025
    ChatGPT and Google Gemini are terrible at summarizing news, according to a >MP> new study

    No one should be shocked by this. So called "AI" is just your phone's autocorrect on steroids.

    No one sensible should be shocked. How many people do you know who would likely take AI's word for it, so long as the misinformation it provides confirms their beliefs?


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Wed Feb 12 10:15:00 2025
    I haven't seen it do anything too awesome yet. Gemini has been a little handy for getting examples of things, but I haven't seen it save any lives yet, or take anyones job.

    Not yet.

    I have a difficult time believing anything until I see it, and I haven't seen AI yet.

    If you done any google (or bing or...) searches at all, you've seen it and probably not known it.

    While recently, Google has started doing a better job of labeling their own
    AI search responses as "AI generated," are you sure that other information you have read in past, or other search results it presents from other sites, are also not AI generated?

    It was recently uncovered that some news sites were using AI to summarize
    their news articles with very mixed to downright libelous results. Someone
    got sued over it.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Mike Powell on Wed Feb 12 11:48:06 2025
    If you done any google (or bing or...) searches at all, you've seen it
    and probably not known it.

    While recently, Google has started doing a better job of labeling their own AI search responses as "AI generated," are you sure that other information you have read in past, or other search results it presents from other sites, are also not AI generated?

    I've seen it on the internet, but I just haven't seen it serve any useful purpose. (News isn't that useful, swear filters aren't that useful, customer service chatbots aren't that useful.)

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Thu Feb 13 09:06:00 2025
    If you done any google (or bing or...) searches at all, you've seen it and probably not known it.

    While recently, Google has started doing a better job of labeling their own AI search responses as "AI generated," are you sure that other information you have read in past, or other search results it presents from other sites, are also not AI generated?

    I've seen it on the internet, but I just haven't seen it serve any useful purpose. (News isn't that useful, swear filters aren't that useful, customer service chatbots aren't that useful.)

    Well, that is part of the problem. It is not very useful yet and, as a
    result, can lead people into doing things they should not, especially if
    they do not realize the information they received is from AI and not a good source.


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