Bots give equal weight to scientific and non-scientific sources, potentially directing sufferers away from approved treatments and preventing them from receiving the life-saving help they need, study finds
The bots are programmed to produce an answer and it’s the user who driving the produced output. Thats how all these agentic work is getting done. When the user doesn’t like the answers they can direct the bot until they get the answers they want to hear.
Users are typically skimming the output, ignoring what they don’t want to hear and guiding it down the rabbit holes they do want to hear.
They can be used as confirmation biased machines. The less curious the mind, the stronger the effect.
Essentially, yes.
The bots are programmed to produce an answer and it’s the user who driving the produced output. Thats how all these agentic work is getting done. When the user doesn’t like the answers they can direct the bot until they get the answers they want to hear.
Users are typically skimming the output, ignoring what they don’t want to hear and guiding it down the rabbit holes they do want to hear.
They can be used as confirmation biased machines. The less curious the mind, the stronger the effect.