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If you think #AI can save you time you're wrong.

I'm working on a blog post and I started my research in Google as one does sometimes. It helpfully spit-out some accurate sounding bullshit (complete with sources at least).

First entry looks accurate enough and jibes well with my loose memory on the subject. So I'm thinking GREAT! This is going to save me so much time!

Second entry looks accurate too, but it's about something I know nothing about and it's strangely talking about a loosely related concept under the heading of another loosely related concept? Ok. The source is Wikipedia. This is good.

Go to Wikipedia.

Ok, the guy's name is there. Even listed under the right sub-section. But he is absolutely NOT what Google is telling me he is even if he ultimately did do what Google is telling me he did.

It's a blatant
#mistake? lie? hallucination? that would cause me to lose all #credibility.

So there goes that idea.

At least Google gave me a list of
#sources. That's helpful. So now I've got to go through all the sources and come up with something completely from scratch.

Which, if I'm being honest, is what I should have done originally.

Also...
"AI responses may include mistakes." is not worded strongly enough.

It should read,
"Today's AI generates answers that are inaccurate yet sound plausible, and are not based on any facts or reality. AI responses should not be relied on for any business, academic, scholar, legal, technical, medical, scientific, financial, historical, or military purposes."

But investors probably won't like that.

LA VALLÉE DE LA SIOULE recèle de petits trésors:

Parmi eux , le château Rocher qui domine la vallée et qui fait l'objet d'un beau projet de rénovation.

La source Lefort à Châteauneuf les Bains est aussi un lieu très chouette pour un baignade dans de l'eau à 35°. Avis aux personnes qui souffrent de rhumatismes!

#château #auvergne #therme #sources #auvergne destination #natittude #combraillesauvergne #thermalenergy #valleedelasioule #baladeenfamille #sourcedeauchaude

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Garland changed the policy after the revelation in 2021 that the #DOJ, under #Trump AG #BillBarr, had secretly pursued email records of reporters at The NYT, WaPo & CNN during Trump’s first term. At the time, Garland said that a flat ban on such tactics was necessary to “allow #journalists to perform the crucial work of informing the public without fear of legal consequences.”

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"Some of the most consequential reporting in US history—from Watergate to warrantless wiretapping after 9/11—was & continues to be made possible because #reporters have been able to protect the identities of confidential #sources & uncover & report stories that matter to people across the political spectrum," said Bruce Brown, Reporters Cmte president, an advocacy group for #journalists, in a stmnt.