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Are those significant numbers of real people or do you just imagine they exist to make you feel superior? From what I've seen, non-technical people generally see AI as usually wrong. They laugh at it not knowing how many fingers to draw on a person, for instance. Just today, I heard DJs on a local radio station using ChatGPT to write recipes. They had a laugh at the silly things it came up with and concluded that we don't need to worry about AI taking our jobs yet.

I think people have a greater weakness for trusting other humans. The world is full of people who do destructive things to themselves and others because they trusted confident liers or other believers who had themselves been fooled. Even on a small group level, people tend to favor ideas from those with higher social status rather than evaluating the ideas themselves. AI not being a respected human wouldn't have that social power.



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