Dr. Steven Novella

And I've encountered that a lot as well.

Absolutely.

That's the sycophancy problem.

It's always trying to make you feel, that's a great question, and then lean into that to try to enhance that relationship, but rather than reflecting reality.

So, I mean, it's a tool, and like all tools, it could be used for good or for evil, right?

I think my biggest problem with AI is the Oracle problem, right?

Is that people see it as this magical Oracle, and they're kind of already getting emails from people saying, hey, AI said this.

This is the truth.

It's like, that's your reference, AI.

That's your reference.

They said it, and it must be true.

And then again, it was a prompt problem.

The way you prompted it kind of provoked that answer here.

I prompted it this way.

I got a completely different answer.

But let's dig into the references.

So in this particular case, I think all the references were hallucinations.

They were all fake, just like RFK's reports.

So they didn't even know about that.

What do you mean it's fake?