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When do politicians not speak with ambiguity? They are the master of the use of words to avoid or evade questions, while stamping them with strong gestures. I agree, context is important l, as is intent and purpose. I doubt that any AI will be able to effectively fact-check, especially when disinformation is a science and daily political tool. The danger is when statements of fact are plausible. What was the saying? I believe half if what I see and nothing I here. I have always been afraid of heuristics, having been a Philip K Dick fan from an early age. I remember seeing a video of a drone on TV news. It was attacking ‘terrorists’ with a suggestion of qualification that they were a viable target because they were wearing hijab. I think fact-checking generative AI is going to be an ongoing job for humans, and we have to hope that they too don’t base truth on their own biases.

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The idea that we want to replace thinking with fact checking robots is scary. Our increasing inability to think, have constructive conversation and disagreement without hate is a problem. We need more thinking. More conversations. Not more subjective rules.

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