Exactly. Especially when there's some hustle behind lying to people. Phony medical advice is the classic one here. People do it to sell their sugar pills or do

Exactly. Especially when there's some hustle behind lying to people. Phony medical advice is the classic one here. People do it to sell their sugar pills or do some Peter Popoff style healing touch hustle. Some scams, like MLM, encourage massive volumes of this bullshit to be created and disseminated. The democracy of information does not lead to an increased accuracy based on whatever information spreads the most. The internet is a multi-decade long global proof of this. There's a reason that classrooms have 1 teacher and say 24 students - only 4% of that room is to be trusted with the material. To know if something is true, you need to eventually have some kind of external confirmation. Karl Popper wrote a lot about this. These chat systems can make predictions about the existing corpus but it can't like roll around town and do actual science to confirm things. If all truth must be derived from self-contained systems than you have to make sure your self-contained system isn't bullshit. A game for instance, can have its own rules and consistencies and things can be rationalized through the game. But how much that maps to a reality cannot be concluded strictly from inside the game. For instance, if you want expertise in masonry and construction you need to make sure you aren't just feeding your AI Tetris and SimCity.