• People Are Putting A Scary Amount Of Trust In AI ...

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc,nz.general on Mon Oct 27 04:42:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    A person facing criminal charges hired a private investigator to
    review the case against him, then, dissatisfied with the outcome,
    tried to use an AI-written report as some kind of evidence that the PI
    didn’t do his job properly <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/private-investigator-cleared-after-client-used-ai-to-challenge-his-report/FHVEF32FBRAZHNCCUJKMJ2CR5U/>.

    This reliance on AI as supposedly having competence beyond that of
    human experts seems to be a growing trend. And a worrying one.
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