A Minor Thought: Unreliable Narrators

It was always part of digital literacy to be wary of what someone wrote on the internet, but that was typically most applicable to things like Yahoo Answers and random echo chamber forums.

But in our new techbro hellscape of AI-generated “answers” being treated as real information rather than very advanced Gaussian blur plugins, I’m in a position where if I try to look up whether burning gum tragacanth will create toxic fumes or not, the most reliable resource might damn well be some echo chamber forum of randoms because there’s at least a CHANCE that one of them is, when not on the internet, a materials chemist.

But there’d better be two; one to give the answer, and the other to verify it’s not just another AI “answer” posted to be “helpful.”