Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

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What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that. What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company would roll back an update that users complained made ChatGPT 'too sycophant-y.'

As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning back?

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Private data firms are quietly seizing control of global higher education, creating a power shift more profound than universities realize.

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There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers

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