About what it would take for a skeptic to start relying on AI answers.
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About what it would take for a skeptic to start relying on AI answers.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
As soon as it starts returning to me factual, confirm-able answers consistently. Then I'll use it. I just had to fix something a co-worker fucked up by asking ai how to do it. The responses are so confidently wrong it's like watching Kash Patel tell me that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.