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    And yet at the same time that we point out the problems with AI, we can predict with grim certainty that AI is going to take the world by storm just as Epicurus took Italy in the time of Cicero, with Ai's influence being much less beneficial.

    This will require a lot of thought and effort to begin to develop strategies to deal with it, because for most of the world it's happening fast and there will be no turning back. It will be like the past and current battle of viewpoints on Wikipedia, but on steroids.

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    And here was the ai reply:

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    "Yes, Google Search's AI algorithms do factor in your past browsing and search history to personalize your search results"

    No doubt.

    This is why everyone in the forum should be aware that your search queries are going to use confirmation bias as a tool to provide you with satisfying (not necessarily true) results.

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    Here's why:

    Good guess, AI, but not true in this case.

    Working in IT for almost 13 years now, I browse anonymously, use a VPN, auto-clear my cache, turned off search history, and removed all personalization related to Google.

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    • ...location, language settings....

    This is probably it.

    It's another example of AI restricting its presentation based on assumptions it is making about the user in an effort to be helpful. Like any algorithm, it wants to satisfy you with compelling information, not necessary thorough and accurate data. It's just a well-read stranger on the street with a big vocabulary. We have to cross-reference everything it claims.

    We have some experts here. If anyone wants information on Library and Informational Science, Don is your resource, not AI. If you have questions about American jurisprudence, you'll get a more functional, accurate answer from Cassius than AI. When I'm looking for help with language, academic dictionaries are great, but not always as great as Elli who is living and breathing the language everyday, or Bryan who is constantly advancing his study.

    I am concerned about the growing tendency (I observe) to automatically use AI as a resource. I'm seeing my family asking it medical advice instead of their doctor, and people with college degrees asking it to construct paragraphs for them in e-mails, and people going for their Master's degrees getting suspended for allowing AI to write their papers for them. What's going on?

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    I am concerned about the growing tendency (I observe) to automatically use AI as a resource. I'm seeing my family asking it medical advice instead of their doctor, and people with college degrees asking it to construct paragraphs for them in e-mails, and people going for their Master's degrees getting suspended for allowing AI to write their papers for them. What's going on?

    Yep, it's like a Japanese Godzilla movie with the monster rising out of the ocean, but short of global thermonuclear war I don't see what can stop it! i suppose the usual course of events is that some other weapon / technology has to arise to oppose it.

    A passing thought I recently had about using AI:

    I hear that a profuse change in the world disposes you toward generating content with AI. As long as you neither disregard practice and rehearsal, nor demand the respect of others, nor disrupt the artistic profitability of others, nor ruin your own reputation, nor profit from plagiarism, do as you please according to your own preference. It is impossible however not to be a little constrained by at least one of these complications; therefore AI is never advantageous, and desirable only if it has not caused harm.

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