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nuxvomica

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1. These retail uses of AI should just be stopped

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 10:57 AM

19 hrs ago

Promoters justify AI development by claiming that AI could discover new drugs and aid diagnosis, it could really help people, so maybe they should just focus on that. Even then, once AI gets deep into the business of creating things, even useful things, will humans even know how those things work? We are in the midst of a major accountability crisis, especially in politics. Do we really need to be subject to more entities that have no accountability?

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'Poisoned' AI: the ChatGPT shopping scams that lead to fake websites [View all] highplainsdem 20 hrs ago OP

These retail uses of AI should just be stopped nuxvomica 19 hrs ago #1

The AI creators are doing no fact-checking on these search results, obviously FakeNoose 19 hrs ago #2

You're right about them not caring. As for fact-checking AI results before the user sees them - they highplainsdem 18 hrs ago #3

If chat bots are hallucinating then they are indeed poisoned. Martin68 12 hrs ago #4