How the AI Bubble Might Play Out

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5. Ethical problems aside, generative AI itself is a useful tool but like everything else, people should verify.

For example, when Google search has an AI blurb about something, just about everything in that blurb has a little link you can click on and see where it got the information from. Just like I've always told people about using Wikipedia, check the citation and see what it says and where its from. Its the same for using AI to research something. In that context, its fine as a tool for quick information or a portal to the actual places where the information actually comes from.

There are many other issues with how people are using it and the way they are obtaining training data for the models and of course the horrible environmental impact of these massive data centers. But those are other topics.