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AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found (thenextweb.com)

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[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

"Importantly, our goal is not to estimate the overall accuracy of AI assistants, but to isolate the behavioral effect of making an answer available when that answer is systematically unreliable. Therefore, we use Step 3.5 Flash. Because the advice participants could obtain was usually wrong...."

The following Monday morning the research team returned to find all their systems had been replaced with Temple OS.