Dr. Steven Novella

they had no idea that AI could spit out fake ref scientific references and they didn't check them up.

So there's always a teaching moment there.

It's like, you got to check your resource, your sources.

You got to always go back to primary sources, you know, check your references, blah, blah, blah.

Uh, but of course somebody like that's not,

in the habit of doing that.

But whatever, we do what we can.

Maybe it broke through, found the chink in their armor a little bit.

I don't know.

I really don't.

There's the AI slot problems.

I think...

So again, it's a tool that could be used for good or for evil.

I think on the good side, when I'm being optimistic, and I do think that societies do get more savvy over time.

And we see this when we can compare different countries.

You know, like when the Soviet Union fell, people went from an authoritarian world to a non-authoritarian world for a while.

And pseudoscience blossomed everywhere because nobody had any resistance to it.

They were like...

somebody who has no immune system, right?

Because they never had to think for themselves.