Yes. This is applicable to most automation, machine learning and AI. These technologies are generally really bad at sense checking their results. At the end of

Yes. This is applicable to most automation, machine learning and AI. These technologies are generally really bad at sense checking their results. At the end of the day they match patterns that are mathematically the “most correct” pattern even if it’s obviously not the correct answer. This is the Achilles heel of these technologies that is very hard to overcome and why any real applications generally still have a human in the loop. See Facebook’s “chatbot” experiment where they called it off after realizing the only way to have it work in practice was to have an army of humans behind the scenes sense checking answers. The grand AI engine that takes over for humans is still a pipe dream for most applications. Even all these “neutrality flags” are generally nothing more than a keyword search. Put words like COVID-19 or Coronavirus in your post and Medium puts a banner at the top saying the article hasn’t been fact checked.