Editor:
Sheila Evans’ letter (Mailbox, June 26) mentions outcryai.com, which she describes as a “positive” use of AI. The site is an abusive exploitation of people’s tendency to think that if AI says it, it must be the truth. It presents the point of view of its developers, rather than an “old-fashioned” attempt to get at the truth. Democratic society has been corroded by the internet’s for-profit siloing of information. Everyone is handed material confirming their own perspective on complex issues. Controversies where many shades of gray exist are presented as black and white. Outcryai.com has brought this siloing to AI chatbots.
I’d expected such abuse to be created by totalitarian governments, not “activists.” I should have known better.
Mitch Trachtenberg, Trinidad
This article appears in A Place to Stop and Rest.