Re:Tim Bray's AI Angst
by MarkusQ on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:37AM
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And the carefully checked textbooks are just as full of factually incorrect information. If you doubt this, look at any textbook from 50+ years ago; they were also carefully checked--more so than today's--and yet contained many things we now know to be incorrect. In fifty years, our present textbooks will look just as bad, if not worse (seriously; look at a modern K-12 textbook).
So the key thing to get across to kids is that argument by authority is an untrustworthy heuristic at best. AI slop can even help with this.
So the key thing to get across to kids is that argument by authority is an untrustworthy heuristic at best. AI slop can even help with this.