ties together a few things like techbro people falling for dumb shit and marketing themselves as knowledgeable, like the whole ‘we need to align AI to be good because super intelligence is around the corner’ group, right wingers falling for fantastic explanations ‘because it sounds cool so it must be true’ but also conveniently avoids reality and the economic system, chatbots throwing together whatever text is statistically relevant to the query not being able to tell fact from fiction, corps manually curating a large dataset being unprofitable so the problem will never be fixed, cheaper to just add a hardcoded answer after funny AI answer posts go viral, also corps lobbying chatbots into schools to cut on labour while knowing it serves up bunk