>we should ask "is AI wrong more often than the human-curated information?
No, this isn't what we should ask, we should ask if the interface that AI provides is conducive to giving humans the ability to detect the mistakes that it makes.
The issue isn't how often you get wrong information, it's to what extent you're able to spot wrong information under normal use cases. And the uniform AI interface that gives you complete bullshit in the technical sense of that term provides no indication regarding the trustworthiness of the information. A source with 20% of wrong info that you don't notice is worse than one with 80% that you identify.
When you use traditional search you get an unambigious source, context, date, language, authorship and so forth and you must place what you read yourself. You know the onus is on you. ChatGPT is the half self-driving car. It'an inherently pathological interaction because everything in the design screams to take the hands off the wheel. It's an opaque system, and a blackbox with the error rate of a human is a disaster. Human-machine interaction is not human-human interaction.
No, this isn't what we should ask, we should ask if the interface that AI provides is conducive to giving humans the ability to detect the mistakes that it makes.
The issue isn't how often you get wrong information, it's to what extent you're able to spot wrong information under normal use cases. And the uniform AI interface that gives you complete bullshit in the technical sense of that term provides no indication regarding the trustworthiness of the information. A source with 20% of wrong info that you don't notice is worse than one with 80% that you identify.
When you use traditional search you get an unambigious source, context, date, language, authorship and so forth and you must place what you read yourself. You know the onus is on you. ChatGPT is the half self-driving car. It'an inherently pathological interaction because everything in the design screams to take the hands off the wheel. It's an opaque system, and a blackbox with the error rate of a human is a disaster. Human-machine interaction is not human-human interaction.