After years of advocating "America First," President Donald Trump's administration, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."It led to a...
Google AI (sorry) indicates this is a false story. “Reports of Qatar threatening to sell all its U.S. Treasury bonds are false. The rumor, which gained some traction in September 2025, appears to have stemmed from a misinterpretation of remarks made by a Qatari official.” I asked it, “did qatar threaten to sell all its us treasury bonds?”
AI are propaganda machines, check its sources before believing it
how does one even know and verify what an LLM’s “sources” are? wouldn’t it just vomit out whatever response and then find “sources” that happen to match its stupid output after the fact?
Precisely my point. But if it is correct and can link to an authoritative source (eg. a news article), that is relatively easy to verify.
How much you can trust a news article is still up for debate.
so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.
Indeed, not very useful as a search tool IMO
Ask for the source and read it I suppose?
so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.
Sure, but where are the sources saying it’s true what OP stated? It seems harder to prove a rumor.
Agreed, I’m more worried about people blindly trusting AI than I am about this particular situation.