Fuck AI

It’s absolutely an AI problem and it’s an asshole problem. It’s an asshole problem exacerbated by shitty AI.

It’s both. People are misusing AI at the encouragement of companies who want to sell it.

What people want is factually correct information. AI doesn’t deliver this, what it delivers is competently presented and easily understood words which may or may not be correct.

Unfortunately, many people don’t understand how AI works so they don’t realize that they’re using the wrong tool for what they want to accomplish.

The reason AI is part of the problem is that it contributes to the spread of misinformation.

It's an AI problem. We know people are stupid. However, people selling AI garbage tell them it's intelligent, when it really isn't. It is trained to speak confidently and people believe it. It's why con(fidence) men work.

The people pushing these products know some people won't understand it, and they know they'll take what it says at face value, and they fight to push this idea too. They are creating this situation on purpose. If they were responsible they'd be very forward with the limitations and try to ensure even the most gullible of people are skeptical of what it writes. They don't even try to do this though. They create a situation where this happens to pad their own pockets.

I just can't understand why it got to the point of her sending screenshots. Is this the guy not giving a refund or does this person think that he's lying and she wants the map he's "hiding".

I'd assume it's the idiot sending ChatGPT screenshots.

This is a fucking corporation and capitalism problem where these corpos have to convince people that llms can provide factual information when they absolutely cannot be trusted to do this.

The key constant with humanity is stupidity. Forever and always people are dumb af.

We already have.

Social media algorithms are already determined elections and have made Gen Z the first generation to get more conservative than the previous one.

Then we're double cooked because AI is dumb because we created it.

If you want a bunch of data no one else has, you’re entitled to charge for it. From looking at their site, they’re a historical/statistical map provider which is data that you won’t find through Google/Apple/OSM’s public data.

Not really a new thing. Before GPS was in everyone's pocket, you had to get specialized devices. The companies that made those generally gave you 1 free World Map download (or in some cases only your region for free), but future updates or expansions to it would cost a non-trivial amount.

I'm honestly surprised that one of the big players hasn't tried to offer some sort of premium map subscription now that I think about it, though.

ETA: also, physical maps and atlases could be purchased on subscriptions through mail-in stuffs before the internet

At one point that was a true statement.

Back in 2001 when Jerry Springer hosted The Daily Show on TNT we never had issues with information being inaccurate.

No it isn't. I just checked and it loaded fine.