…from Jim Treacher, talking about Grok:
“This thing is just telling me what I want to hear. Which is a nice feeling, but that’s all it is. The user is being manipulated, by design. People are now learning the hard way that these machines are programmed to give an answer, not necessarily the answer. They’re incredibly sophisticated, but they literally don’t know what they’re talking about. They don’t know anything.”
It’s received, not actual “wisdom”, because it’s only as good as what’s been fed into it. Moreover, there are no footnotes to say where they got it, and there’s no telling how many hands may have played with it, massaged it and directed it before it reaches the end user.
Caveat lector.
As computer nerds have said for decades: “Garbage In, Garbage Out”.