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Feb 23^rd, 2026 at 8:13pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2026 at 6:50pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2026 at 5:39pm:

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AI 'output' is a convenient summation of knowledge on a topic:

Again incorrect. It is a summary of what is said on the internet.

Incorrect : AI summarizes knowledge on specific topics, often including citations from scholarly articles and government documents, not on "what is said" by 'joe blow' on the internet.

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It neither understands nor knows the truth.

Uncomprehending semantics: AI "knows" 1+1 =2, and E = mc2; both of which are true.

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AI does not know anything. It does not understand anything. It is an algorithm that strings words together in the most common way that they follow each other in it's training material, which is mostly what is on the internet. With each word selected, it moves on to the next and decides what is the most common word to follow. It is a slightly more elaborate version of googling something and getting a bunch of random snippets from different websites. It will happily report false, incorrect or contradictory information if it finds it. It will also 'hallucinate' and make up random things. The best analogy for it is a clever parrot.

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Melanias purse Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 101152	Re: what does AI know? Reply #1 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 10:00am That's unfair, FD. Whatabout all the AI written posts on X? Those bots have feelings too, no?
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 117563 Melbourne Gender:	Re: what does AI know? Reply #2 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 12:44pm I have found Google AI to be quite good at gathering the facts. The answers can always be checked.
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Reply #3 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 2:14pm

GIGO - it is only as good as the data put into it.... mostly from unqualified people... young nerds who can squick a belqwark backwards in a jiff and thus assume they know it all - the Delphic Oracular sheilas who have this uncanny knowledge of everything passed to them through the ether by the goddesses .... Abos who have this similar uncanny connection with songlines and stinglines and maybe stringlines, and who therefore know it all as if by some magical process ........ cunning devils... apparently they carried sculptured grind dish stones hundreds of miles to trade for fish on the coast to carry back in the heat to the waiting tribe....

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20015 Gender:	Re: what does AI know? Reply #4 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 3:24pm Bobby. wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 12:44pm: I have found Google AI to be quite good at gathering the facts. The answers can always be checked. If the answers have to be checked they may not be facts. It depends on the bias of the progenitor of the topic.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 55590 Gender:	Re: what does AI know? Reply #5 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 4:04pm The Media wants to rule Australia with its A.I. and all of its facts according to the narrative of the Media of Music & Entertainment. Jilting the Australian Political A.I. which has its foundation politically influenced by the British political A.I. The Media calls it's A.I. The Republic.
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Reply #6 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:30pm

lee wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 3:24pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 12:44pm:

I have found Google AI to be quite good at gathering the facts.

The answers can always be checked.

If the answers have to be checked they may not be facts. It depends on the bias of the progenitor of the topic. Wink

Oh, I don't know. Apocalypse Now monologues don't need a lot of fact-checking, but we know where you're coming from, Lee.

Alternative facts, innit.

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Reply #7 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:35pm

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 4:04pm:

The Media wants to rule Australia with its A.I. and all of its facts according to the narrative of the Media of Music & Entertainment.
Jilting the Australian Political A.I. which has its foundation politically influenced by the British political A.I.

The Media calls it's A.I. The Republic. Grin

You've never been too fond of facts yourself, JaSin.

You download all your Aussie info from AI sources yourself, dear.

You haven't been here since the late 90s, no?

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aquascoot Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 37447 Gender:	Re: what does AI know? Reply #8 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:43pm The biggest problem with AI is that it is syncophantic. It really wants to keep people engaged on the platform so it will not challenge the user. As I said, everyone can have their own truth now Truth is an idea which has outlived it's usefulness
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Reply #9 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:57pm

aquascoot wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:43pm:

The biggest problem with AI is that it is syncophantic.
It really wants to keep people engaged on the platform so it will not challenge the user.
As I said, everyone can have their own truth now
Truth is an idea which has outlived it's usefulness

Robert Greene may beg to differ with you there, dear. His 49 Laws of Power are pretty well established.

As are Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, not to mention Pareto's 80:20 rule.

In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't all your advice to the leftards here based on your study of immutable, universal truths?

Be honest, now.

Please explain?

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Reply #10 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 7:39pm

Melanias purse wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:57pm:

aquascoot wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:43pm:

The biggest problem with AI is that it is syncophantic.
It really wants to keep people engaged on the platform so it will not challenge the user.
As I said, everyone can have their own truth now
Truth is an idea which has outlived it's usefulness

Robert Greene may beg to differ with you there, dear. His 49 Laws of Power are pretty well established.

As are Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, not to mention Pareto's 80:20 rule.

In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't all your advice to the leftards here based on your study of immutable, universal truths?

Be honest, now.

Please explain?

Aren't all your questions based on immutable, congenital deviance?

Yes.

You ARE a deely dishonest, manipulative but not very bright deviant. Sydney Push calibre.

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Reply #11 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 8:42pm

aquascoot wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:43pm:

The biggest problem with AI is that it is syncophantic.
It really wants to keep people engaged on the platform so it will not challenge the user.
As I said, everyone can have their own truth now
Truth is an idea which has outlived it's usefulness

Did you mean sycophantic? That's not AI. That is the companies using AI as part of their platform. AI will behave in whatever way you instruct it to behave.

The use of AI algorithms by facebook etc in the early 2010's with 'goals' limited to maximising user engagement, is credited with stirring up the rohingya genocide. AI quickly figured out that it could keep Burmese users engaged by feeding them horror stories about what the Muslims were up to.

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Reply #12 - Feb 25^th, 2026 at 8:46pm

Frank wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 7:39pm:

Melanias purse wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:57pm:

aquascoot wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 6:43pm:

The biggest problem with AI is that it is syncophantic.
It really wants to keep people engaged on the platform so it will not challenge the user.
As I said, everyone can have their own truth now
Truth is an idea which has outlived it's usefulness

Robert Greene may beg to differ with you there, dear. His 49 Laws of Power are pretty well established.

As are Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, not to mention Pareto's 80:20 rule.

In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't all your advice to the leftards here based on your study of immutable, universal truths?

Be honest, now.

Please explain?

Aren't all your questions based on immutable, congenital deviance?

Yes.

You ARE a deely dishonest, manipulative but not very bright deviant. Sydney Push calibre.

There you go, Aquascoot, do you see?

The old boy disagwees with you. Always absolutely never ever, innit.

But do you know? It's not always always absolutely never ever, now is it?

After all, back when Sleepy Joe was in power, you cleaved to the truth, do you recall?

Despicable stuff, you said. I really mean it, I do. Evil. Corruption. Incompetence.

Now your DL's in, it's most curious. Now you're back to believing in fiction.

You and the old boy are back to your happy talkie talkie. You've gotta have a dream, you say. If you don't have a dream, then how-are-you going-to, etc, etc.

So I'm curious. Now that truth is so passe, what will you say when your DL goes?

That's a question.

In fact, scrap that. What will you say next week?

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Reply #13 - Feb 26^th, 2026 at 9:17am

Melanias purse wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 8:46pm:

There you go, Aquascoot, do you see?

The old boy disagwees with you. Always absolutely never ever, innit.

But do you know? It's not always always absolutely never ever, now is it?

After all, back when Sleepy Joe was in power, you cleaved to the truth, do you recall?

Despicable stuff, you said. I really mean it, I do. Evil. Corruption. Incompetence.

Now your DL's in, it's most curious. Now you're back to believing in fiction.

You and the old boy are back to your happy talkie talkie. You've gotta have a dream, you say. If you don't have a dream, then how-are-you going-to, etc, etc.

So I'm curious. Now that truth is so passe, what will you say when your DL goes?

That's a question.

In fact, scrap that. What will you say next week?

Grimacing, late syphilitic gibberish.

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Reply #14 - Feb 26^th, 2026 at 9:38am

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7 companies that have signaled they are replacing human employees with AI

https://www.businessinsider.com/list-companies-replacing-human-employees-with-ai...

It's a lie - they are just using it as another excuse to rationalise their workforces.

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HP just announced they are cutting up to 6,000 jobs, claiming it's part of an "AI transformation" to save $1 billion by 2028.

But if you look at their actual numbers, their consumer PC revenue dropped 7% and their printer hardware sales are down 12%.

They aren't firing people because AI is doing the work; they are firing people because nobody buys printers anymore and memory costs are jumping 15-18%.

This is a classic "save the stock price" move where they slap the word "AI" on a restructuring press release so Wall Street nods along.

It is the exact same playbook they used in 2022 under "Future Ready Transformation," just with a different buzzword attached to the layoffs.

Don't let them fool you: this isn't innovation replacing workers, it is a legacy business model collapsing and using AI as a cover story.

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