Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘I think truth is really valuable. It’s the most important commodity of the present moment. And it’s something that is increasingly scarce — and once you lose it, it’s very difficult to regain it.

And I think A.I. is going to create a lot of information and noise. It’s going to become increasingly important for people to be able to sort the truth out from all that.

The A.I. does hallucinate quite a bit. If you’ve ever talked to ChatGPT, it can make things up — and if you point that out, it will correct itself. But even then, you still have to be able to source what the truth is and what that means.

That’s also the problem with social media, too. Those algorithms are designed, and the incentives are perhaps not aligned to the user — they’re aligned toward the corporation. So for anything that people can get addicted to — and there’s a monetary incentive for them to get addicted to it — it will happen.

I think there is a world where A.I. can be a source of truth — but right now I don’t think it is. People take everything it says at face value. The number of “@Grok, is that true?” that I see on X — where people are asking the A.I. to validate a tweet, rather than go and do the research themselves and work that muscle in their brain — is concerning. Because you do have to have a radar for truth. Because it’s so easy to get taken advantage of right now. There’s just so much information, there’s so much noise, and it’s just nonstop.

It’s very easy to make mistakes — and a lot of people do. And you have to be able to know what’s true and what isn’t and have your own moral and value compass.’ (from the New York Times)