At the front of the house, Alice found two curious characters, both search engines.

"I am Googl-E," said the one plastered in advertisements.

"And I am Bingle-Dum," said the other, who was the smaller of the two, and sported a pout, as to having fewer visitors and opportunity for conversation than the other.

"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?"

"Oh no," said Bingle-Dum.

"We both lie," added Googl-E.

"But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?"

"That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum.

"We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.

@danhon "Oh well," said Alice, sighing with exhaustion, "I guess if you're both liars, and you're both equally truthful about your propensity to lie, it is still a step up from the ubiquity of human-generated lies — which are just as hard to distinguish from truths, but infinitely more malicious."
@brandonscript @danhon people actually claim this? as a "silver lining" to disinformation generated by chatgpt?
@_benui well, I'm sure someone does, but this was just my resigned exasperation with the state of things. @danhon