AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found

Re:AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, ... by stingraycharles on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:42PM (#48972746)

I don’t think this is correct, as we’re talking about all online discourse being influenced by AI, and you don’t know what to trust anymore, rather than generating AI output yourself (which is what you are referring to).

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Re:AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, ... by papercrane on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:49PM (#48972787)

In this context, it would mean building a knowledge base the model can link to that is considered authoritative. So maybe the LLM is has some slop in it's training, and that causes it to try and output some junk, but if it can't match it to it's verified ground-truth KB it doesn't end up outputting it.

The problem is figuring out what is the authoritative sources.

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Re:AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, ... by stingraycharles on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:51PM (#48973198)

But we're talking about AI writing and/or influencing other people's online discourse, not?

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