Google returning AI nonsense in search highlights

[gracchus]

@Brainspore

Maybe we’re due for a milder version of the Butlerian Jihad except instead of banning all computers and replacing them with highly disciplined Mentats we just get rid of the search algorithms and go back to depending on human librarians.

Or something like this:

@gracchus

Once again we find ourselves heading toward a Neal Stephenson future, one where only people who can afford to hire a human editor (presumably one who owns dead-tree books) can dredge anything of value out of the Miasma.

Or worse, the “Living Books” from Soylent Green.

Reader poll of runner-ups, Fall 2016: ‘Soylent Green’ and the Books

Although we’re going to reach a point in the future when most people who weren’t adults by 2016 can’t be assumed to know how to distinguish fact from disinfo or AI hallucination.