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Re: Is this where we are going with AI?

From Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Is this where we are going with AI?
Date 2026-05-13 09:48 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <slrn1108i70.2dr.jj@iridium.wf32df> (permalink)
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On 2026-05-12, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
....snip....
>> It could be, of course that he'd have got no further by entering into a 
>> conversation with humans on a bulletin board, or indeed here on usenet. 
>> I have no way of knowing.
>> 
>> I reckon to use one of these tools well, you already need to be somewhat 
>> of an expert in the area of discussion - so you can spot the 
>> hallucinations and where it is off the mark. 
>
> Even then they still describe their hallucinations in dangerously
> convincing ways, wrapping them with lots of irrelevent but
> correct facts from elsewhere. More misleading than any response
> from a human, who would never work that hard to sell such lies in
> an unimportant online discussion.

An aspect That hadn't occurred to me! Thanks.

Though of course that ignores the trolls that often go out of their way 
to mislead. Which begs the question: Are AIs trolls, but aren't aware of 
it?

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Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 18:26 +0000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-12 20:49 +0200
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-13 00:07 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-13 02:28 +0200
        Re: Is this where we are going with AI? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-13 02:58 +0000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-12 18:56 +0000
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 19:19 +0000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-12 20:10 +0100
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-12 19:17 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-12 20:32 +0100
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-12 21:52 +0200
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-13 08:12 +1000
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-13 09:48 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-05-13 12:18 +0000
      Re: Is this where we are going with AI? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-14 08:52 +1000
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2026-05-13 20:48 +0100
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? none <none@none.rip> - 2026-05-13 21:59 +0200
  Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-13 21:46 +0000
    Re: Is this where we are going with AI? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-05-14 08:52 +0000

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