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This is why generative AI simply doesn't work for anything with actual consequences. As it is right now, it's a glorified autocomplete, and one that doesn't understand the context it's being used in at all.

That's fine for things like stock images or text on random product pages, but for things like this? Yeah, the very concept is just risky as hell.

Search also doesn’t work for anything with actual consequences by this logic.

You verify information by finding multiple, different sources.

but at this point, a committed actor would be able to generate multiple, different sources for this very reason

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