AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse (www.wired.com)

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Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what’s real and what’s not—and getting inaccurate information.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Nobody should be using LLMs for accurate facts or news. Why can't people get it through their heads that LLMs are not sentient or discerning. It's all just pattern matching via algorithms.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Because people only want a simple answer they can pigeonhole into their worldview

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