"Thank you for correcting me on that specific detail-you had it exactly right."
Well thanks, but I knew that from the outset. And it's not the first time I've locked horns with AI over a political issue. In a previous knock-out round I had to correct it when it told me The Coalition's Energy Policy still included the construction of seven government-owned nuclear power stations. Obviously not.
I also wrote more recently about outlandish claims by some AI tech "experts" that the seemingly helpful bots were secretly plotting our demise:
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A good plot for a Hollywood sequel to I Robot, which I would classify as science fiction. But meanwhile AI seems to get its political view from the left, not the right, and it begs the question again of whether it can be trusted for an unbiased, balanced statement of facts. Would such "misinformation" be banned under Labor's Digital Duty of Care legislation?
I think not.
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