The interesting question isnâ(TM)t that 73% of people accept faulty AI reasoningâ¦

Itâ(TM)s which 73%.

What happens to the segment of the population that already struggles with critical thinking? The folks whoâ(TM)ve historically bought into things like flat earth, QAnon, miracle cures, etc.

Those groups didnâ(TM)t suddenly appear because of AI, they existed long before it. They already demonstrate a tendency to accept authoritative-sounding information without much scrutiny.

So what changes now?

If anything, AI just becomes another âoeauthorityâ to outsource thinking to. And per this study, those already predisposed to see AI as authoritative are the most likely to be led astray.

Sure, today if you ask Claude or ChatGPT about flat earth, youâ(TM)ll get a correct answer. But we all know these systems can be nudged, reframed, or persistence-prompted into saying almost anything.

And hereâ(TM)s the real problem:

If someone didnâ(TM)t question YouTube videos, Facebook posts, or random blogs⦠why would they suddenly start questioning AI?

They wonâ(TM)t.

So the outcome isnâ(TM)t that AI âoefixesâ bad thinking. It likely just amplifies whatever thinking was already there.

For people with strong critical thinking skills, AI is a tool.

For people without it, itâ(TM)s just a more convincing storyteller.

That seems like the real risk.

The bigger issue with SaaS is data and digital sovereignty, not AI.

This story still promotes the fallacy that AI can generate production-quality code or anyone can use AI to build a SalesForce alternative or some other nonsense.

The real issue is the erosion in trust in the big companies and hosting countries that data is safe, secure, controlled, not being used to train AI or shared with US government entities, ...

Digital and data sovereignty are causing folks to turn away from SaaS more than people rolling their own software solutions using AI...

In a word, the pizza chains are killing pizza.

They're too busy chasing cheap ingredients sourced from cheapest vendors, hiring workers at the lowest fairs, trying to scrape every extra penny as profit so they can publish reports that make wallstreet happy.

All that does is enshittify their products so of course nobody wants that crap or that hassle. We haven't eaten from a chain pizza place in about 5 years at least, always preferring small mom and pop places that are trying to stand out with better ingredients and happier workers.

I plan on dropping GM from the list of car makers that I will buy my next car.

They already sell me as a product, why would I give them additional funds so they can learn more about me and sell me at a higher price?

Do I want augmented reality? Absolutely. I've wanted them for years and see the value in auto facial recognition, heads up data and navigational details, auto recording things that happen so I don't wish later on I had actually recorded something, ...

But not for a wickedly evil company like Meta, no way in hell.

I can't think of an example where not having a real succession plan ended well.

Aliens attacking us because they want data? WTF? What would any human data matter to aliens? If they're so data hungry and they can send ships around the universe hoovering up data, can't they just create data generators on their own?

The whole premise of the movie was ridiculously stupid.

Check out Anubis to block these rogue crawlers.

If I am driving my car down a lane of traffic, but I veer into another lane, say of oncoming traffic, I'll get into a wreck and won't get to my destination.

The answer to that is not to limit the traffic that is staying in their own lane that I veered into because I wanted more than I already have.

I either have to stay in the lane(s) I have available or build new lanes.

I don't care about VR, I'm not going to use it every day or in any meaningful way.

You know what I would use? AR glasses.

Nothing fancy, mind you, mostly just the details on my iwatch that appear right in my lens. Throw in some facial recog to give me the name of the person I'm talking to, and bam - you have a product I'd order today.

But you can keep your big, gawky, awkward VR goggles...

Why do we always see these messages calling out Boeing, as though they had a hand in the crash?

For news reports for a car crash we don't commonly see things like Ford Bronco plows into crowd of people as if the Bronco or Ford had any involvement in the driver's actions...

If it comes out that it was an issue with the plane, and it's not a maintenance issue and really is a product flaw, then yeah, let's blame the manufacturer all day long.

Until then, all this does is associate a really horrible accident to a company/product that might not have anything at all to do with it.

What Andrew describes is the reality. I vibe code all day too, I admit it. It helps me reduce the amount of mundane code I otherwise have to write. But the non-mundane code, that always needs to be reviewed and often needs adjustments, etc. As a tool, it does make me more efficient, but it is a far cry from being able to replace me.

But that's not the hype. The hype is that it's generating complete apps ready for sale on the app stores, or a vibe coder gets millions of VC cash because they created an app in a weekend and they don't even know how to program...

The hype has the c-suite thinking they don't need humans for many jobs now, so they're eyeing those big bonuses they'll be able to rake in by laying off large portions of their organization. They should be thinking how much more they'll get from their workforce by making them more productive, instead they expect to get the same level of productivity but with fewer (or better, no) people.

Boy, are they going to be surprised when that just doesn't happen...

RTFM has always been a problem in our industry. I can remember in Usenet days asking questions and getting responses like RTFM or "I found your answer over here on http://goatse.cx/ ..."

SO works until everyone gets tired of answering the same questions over and over because the posters don't want to RTFM, they just want a quick answer.

And so AI is killing them now because AI doesn't care how many times someone asks a previously asked/answered question, it will happily reply to every question as best it can (even though it may hallucinate a response, it's still better than RTFM).

It would be one thing if the ISPs were taking what they made, investing in infrastructure, expanding coverage, improving capacity and speeds...

But these assholes are only upset because they can't make as much year end bonus bucks...

The problem is in the actual content of the report. It too is full of made up crap sourced from unknown origins all to support a questionable policy position by someone with no medical training and generally considered to be on the fringe on most topics.

The citations only prove that they're making crap up to support their arguments and positions.