One thing I want to use a social media AI for: detecting whenever someone is asking an easily Google-able question.

The AI would save so much time by just sending the offending party a link to Google.

I once asked someone, "Why do you ask such obvious questions to social media instead of just Googling it?"

His response was enlightening: "I don't trust Google."

Okay, so I get why someone might have suspicions about Google's algorithms, but why are random Internet strangers—many susceptible to conspiracy theories—more reputable to you than Google?

That's a rhetorical question, by the way. Don't answer it.

@atomicpoet
I get that it's only a rhetorical question but I reckon it's sociologically and psychologically quite interesting if you think about it, so I would like to talk it out:

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@Butcher That's okay. I'd rather just google it 🙃

@atomicpoet I feel like there should be a good selection bias joke in whatever answer Google would return. So now I'm actually a bit curious but also can't be bothered.

(sorry I 'm just a tad bored on a long train journey)