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And there one gets to the core issue of AI: it doesn’t know. It’s not capable of knowing.

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“Bots learn from humans and humans are flawed.”

Except that bots are not “regurgitating” lies circulating online. Bots make up their very own original lies. AI cheerleaders call them “hallucinations” as though the poor bots are mentally ill. But all signs are that the bots lie simply because they have no reason not to.

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Chatbots don't "lie" if we define lying as deliberately stating something that is known to be false. We humans assign truth or falsity to their output based on our understanding of what we consider true or false in the world as we experience it.

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