A friend recently said something that disquieted me. He said that he assumes I make use of AI in creating the articles I post to this site or in selecting the articles I link to on other sites. I suppose it’s a fair assumption since so many people across so many fields are now relying on AI to do tasks they once performed themselves. But I think it’s important you know that I do not use AI in any way.
It’s important because so much information is now being created and provided by artificial intelligence. Websites are full of AI slop, and it is often difficult to trust the information they provide. The top results on Google are now usually AI-generated and, in my experience, often wrong. (Just yesterday, it assured me I had written a study guide for one of my books that most certainly does not exist.) While AI may increase the quantity of information that is being created and amplify our access to it, it is at the same time eroding our confidence in it. And what use is information if it is not trustworthy?
So I want you to
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