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I’ve had AI give me several answers on decisive topics, and it gives me one extreme end, stated as an unequivocal fact. I’ve even had it say, “full stop”, to double down that there was no room for debate on the topic.

When I push back, it softens, but can take 5-10 rounds back and forth to arrive at an answer that has some nuance and isn’t based on the ideology it started out with.

Considering a lot of people are taking AI answers as decided fact, the framing as fact, and making it less likely for anyone to visit source material… I find it all pretty alarming.

Whoever controls the bias of the AI could, theoretically, control the sentiment of the country or world on a wide range of topics.

I find the The Truman Show (1998) very apropos these days [Spoiler Alert] where everything in the protagonist's environment is cynically shaped to make him consume certain products, believe certain things about how the world works, and to have certain crippling fears.