{"id":475509,"date":"2026-05-08T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475509\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:38:09","slug":"hey-ai-still-sucks-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475509\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, \u201cAI\u201d Still Sucks | Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\tPosted on\t\t\tMay 8, 2026<\/a>
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\n\t\t\tPosted by\t\t\tJohn Scalzi<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0
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Your occasional reminder that “AI” is shit: Every assertion in this “AI Overview” of the question “What coffee does John Scalzi drink” is wrong. I don’t regularly drink coffee (and never black) I’ve never had black sesame jasmine cream tea, and I don’t hang in coffee shops. Don’t trust “AI” ever!<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Scalzi (@scalzi.com)<\/a> 2026-05-08T16:24:42.334Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I still ask \u201cAI\u201d questions about me from time to time,<\/strong> just to see what it knows about a moderately notable science fiction author and whether it will still make up things when it doesn\u2019t know something, and as of May 8, 2026, the answer to each is \u201cnot as much as it thinks it does,\u201d and \u201cit definitely will.\u201d <\/p>\n

As always, I remind myself: If it knows this little about something I know very well, think of how little it knows about things I know nothing about. It literally cannot be trusted with anything factual (because, one again, it doesn\u2019t know facts, it just knows what is statistically likely to be the next word), and thinking that can be is an actual intellectual hazard and fault. Don\u2019t be the one who does that.<\/p>\n

\u2014 JS<\/p>\n

\t\t\u2190 The Big Idea: Jill Rosenberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on May 8, 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Your occasional reminder that “AI” is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-475509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116541594297240903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}