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snot

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8. Terrifying.

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Wed Feb 11, 2026, 06:04 PM

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Also terrifying: I've tested AI's a number of times on subjects of greater and lesser obscurity, and in every case, the answers have contined crucial factual errors that might easily have been caught by any decent human researcher.

So not only will AI's soon control the world, but they're incompetent.

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