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Axios used AI to fake an opinion poll (sh.itjust.works)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Yep. AI, such as it is, can be useful for some things. I had had a song kinda stuck in my head for years, couldn't remember the lyrics, artist, or song name - only that it was in french and done stuff from the video. ChatGPT worked it out quickly. On the other hand, I was using it to look up definitions for a legal case I'm kinda involved in that hasn't really happened before - I know I shouldn't, but I'm not a lawyer! - and I found it was using my own case which has not been decided as evidence.

So yeah, they can be impressive but you can't trust these programmes with anything important.