Yet another AI doomer article in The Guardian. It talks about a dodgy YouGov survey on church attendance and AI being used to generate survey responses as if they’re related.
But it’s more than halfway through the article before it says:

“There is no evidence to suggest AI use was the source of the fraud in the church attendance numbers recorded by YouGov”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling

#ai #aidoom #theguardian #yougov

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

The Guardian