“Google search results are accurate ~91% of the time.”
…”translating to tens of millions of wrong answers provided every hour…”
“…people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8% of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed ‘cognitive surrender’.”
https://legal.social/@malteengeler/116373209995847377
Jonathan Schofield
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