Hrefna (DHC)Feb 26, 2023

This idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just so… not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.

The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.

Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.

Show threadConormcelvaney

@hrefna so well put, thanks for that, it seems like an impossible problem, to try and present truth,

Eg If you look at the big story by Kevin Roose in NYT you could take a view that the ai was doing its best to generate a response that he was looking for

Feb 27, 2023 at 10:54pmWeb