"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
reply--Charles Babbage
Blind trust in the machine for a certain type of user seems to be endemic since the beginning.
They did the same with Google search results that were just SEO garbage content, too.
replyIt’s usually right. This isn’t as big of an issue anymore.
replyPeople taking ‘usually right’ as ‘100% true fact’ sounds like a pretty big issue to me. Of course, it’s the people who must learn to know and mind the distinction, first and foremost.
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