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AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

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423 points sohkamyung | 4 comments | 22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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roguecoder ◴[22 Oct 25 15:12 UTC] No.45670387[source]▶
I am curious if LLMs evangelists understand how off-putting it is when they knee-jerk rationalize how badly these tools are performing. It makes it seem like it isn't about technological capabilities: it is about a religious belief that "competence" is too much to ask of either them or their software tools.
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1. kibwen ◴[22 Oct 25 16:42 UTC] No.45671741[source]▶
We live in a post-truth society. This means that, unfortunately, most of society has learned that it doesn't matter if what you're saying is true. All that matters is that the words that you speak cause you or your cause to gain power.
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2. callc ◴[22 Oct 25 18:33 UTC] No.45673275[source]▶
All the more reason to call out bullshit in real life

Value truth and honesty. Call out lies for what they are.

This is the way to get sanity both for ourselves and for society as a whole

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3. AkelaA ◴[22 Oct 25 18:59 UTC] No.45673597[source]▶
It does feel like there would be a lot more skepticism about the technology if it had appeared a decade or two ago.
4. anigbrowl ◴[23 Oct 25 06:13 UTC] No.45678727[source]▶
This is why I'm so dismissive of self-styled political moderates who argue that the path to political comity is to talk things out with political opponents, meet them half way etc. You cannot have political comity with people who don't value truth and don't adhere to rational methods of argument. Such people will lie about their premises, repudiate arguments they previously agreed to (either on their own initiative or because their political weathervane of choice has changed direction), and their promises are meaningless because they don't see any shame in breaking a promise with people they don't respect. Basically about 1/3 of the US has taken ont eh trait of narcissistic personality disorder at a group level.

I urge everyone to read Harry Frankfurt's short essay On Bullshit: https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on...