The latest fake video of Prince William and Kate talking drivel about soccer clearly shows that it cannot be a source of reliable information. It might have its uses, but anyone who watched the ABC thriller, ‘The Capture’ knows what we could be in for.

When I first started using AI as a source of information - just because it came up first on Google - it did warn that it could make mistakes, and other checks would be wise. That’s not done anymore.

I think AI can be a great benefit; but it has now been shown that it can be used to lie and put out serious misinformation about things and people by people wanting to use it that way.

But, better than AI are people like John Mikkelsen who investigate and get people thinking and talking about something that has already been misused - as it will be in the future - and the serious dangers involved. The potential damage will make the ‘misinformation’ censors make a fuss about now, look like toddlers’ fibs.

Spot on, ttbn. Yes we too have watched each series of 'The Capture' on iView, which is pretty scary. There is also an older series 'Person of Interest' on Netflix now which is also predictive of what can happen when our lives and movements are monitored by AI.

Yeah, AI doesn't always get it right and sometimes misleads.

Perhaps we should turn to other sources that never get it wrong and never mislead.

Like:

The Mainstream Media.... who ever heard of the MSM lying or just making it up. ...oh wait.
Wikipedia... oh wait.
Social media... where apparently most people now get their news. Who ever heard of errors on X or Facebook?
YouTube...oh wait. You only need to read AC's posts to realise how misleading YouTube is.

There is this 'thinking' among the naive that, if it comes out of a computer, it must be right. They are shocked and suspicious when that turns out to be a total misreading of the facts. AI, like all programmes, is only as good as the data it receives. Garbage in-Garbage out.

But it has its uses, so long as you understand its limitations. For example....
http://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-team-191653565.html ("Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle").

People always want a short-cut to the truth. But the world doesn't work like that and you have to put in the effort to get the reward. Sorry if that seems too hard.