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highplainsdem

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3. You're right about them not caring. As for fact-checking AI results before the user sees them - they
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 11:44 AM
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not only can't do that without slowing down the results, but trying to do so would increase the operating cost, the cost of compute, and the AI companies are already losing money almost every time someone uses AI. (See the threads in GD about Ed Zitron for the best explanations.)

I saw an essay the other day (but forgot to bookmark it) about what would supposedly "solve" genAI's high failure rate. The recommendation was to give lots of AI models the same prompt and show the user only the answer that most of the chatbots offered. Which not only ignored the fact that they could still all be wrong, but would multiply the cost of getting the answer by the number of chatbots used.

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