How AI Can Mislead Through Natural Language Processing explores how AI can generate convincing but inaccurate or biased content, emphasizing the need for critical thinking online.

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I had an experience the other day that led me down a little bit of a rabbithole.... basically let me ask.... Have you ever got a response to a thoughtful email and think: "Wait, did <insert name here> even read this message and think about it, or did they just run it through ChatGPT and hit copy-paste?"

Turns out there is a name for that feeling. It’s called **Epistemic Laundering**. In finance, money laundering is about hiding the shady origin of cash to make it look "clean". In AI, epistemic laundering is about taking a thought, a critique, or a question, and passing it through an LLM to "clean" it of any actual human effort.

This is what i experienced. So why did it feels so "off": Well, for the following reasons...

* Zero Skin in the Game : When someone copy-pastes AI feedback, they aren't actually standing behind the words. They’re abdicating their judgment to a statistical pattern-matcher.

* The Validation Loop : AI is programmed to be helpful and polite. If I feed my own half-baked idea into an AI and ask you for "feedback," and you just copy-paste that AI's polite summary back to me, we haven't actually moved the needle, you have just laundered my own bias through your chatbot.

* Skill Atrophy : If we stop "applying our minds" to the small stuff (emails, peer reviews, quick notes whatever..), we lose the ability to do the deep thinking when it actually matters. This scares me.

Sadly i think this is going to get worse. My view is that AI is a brilliant sparring partner, but a terrible proxy for presence.

If you’re too busy to reply, a short "Got it, will look later" is infinitely more valuable than a 3-paragraph AI hallucination that proves you didn't actually read the work. This is my point.

Let’s keep the "human" in human resources (and networking). Anyone have a similar experience ?

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https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/rhetoric/framing/kirby/2026/01/28/the-kirby-frame.html

"To measure the prevalence and effect of this kind of cognitive surrender to AI, the researchers performed a number of studies based on Cognitive Reflection Tests. These tests are designed to elicit incorrect answers from participants that default to “intuitive” (System 1) thought processes, but to be relatively simple to answer for those who use more “deliberative” (System 2) thought processes.

For their experiments, the researchers provided participants with optional access to an LLM chatbot that had been modified to randomly provide inaccurate answers to the CRT questions about half the time (and accurate answers the other half). The researchers hypothesized that users who frequently consulted the chatbot would let those incorrect answers “override intuitive and deliberative processes,” hurting their overall performance and highlighting the dangers of cognitive surrender.

In one study, an experimental group with access to this modified AI consulted it for help with about 50 percent of the presented CRT problems. When the AI was accurate, those AI users accepted its reasoning about 93 percent of the time. When the AI was randomly “faulty,” though, those users still accepted the AI reasoning a lower (but still high) 80 percent of the time, showing that the mere presence of the AI frequently “displaced internal reasoning,” according to the researchers.

Unsurprisingly, the AI-using experimental group did much better than the “brain-only” control group when the AI provided accurate answers, and much worse than the control when the AI was inaccurate."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBHBSeB1fdY

Emily Schrader discusses the latest disinformation campaign orchestrated by the media and the Islamic Republic of Iran's propaganda system.

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