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AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty (www.techradar.com)
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[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Anyone who spent serious time at an event this year noticed it. You sit in the room and thirty minutes in you realize the presenter has not actually field-tested any of what is on the screen. The model made it coherent. Coherence is not the same as true.

I'm stealing/keeping that last bit, slightly rephrased: Coherence is not the same thing as truth.

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