2026-05-01 07:05 UTC
@monkeyborg only to people incapable of any serious discrimination, like Joseph Weizenbaum's secretary who asked him to leave the room so she could converse in private with Eliza, the first chatbot, which she had seen him working on.
Claude routinely tells me things I don't already know and which are immediately verifiable and it routinely tells me things are wrong, out of date, inaccurate.
Only a credulous fool would trust a probabilistic algorithm as an oracle. Who knew?
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@monkeyborg@triangletoot.party 2026-05-01 15:16
@samueljohnson While I agree with the kernel of what you're saying, I don't see any need to insult people who may have gotten taken in — or to imagine that people who possess better-than-average critical thinking skills are immune.