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4 days agoThe maximum is 61%, which doesn’t seem that high to me. It means 3 of 5 Democrats trust the most trusted source.
Much more important to me is that the Republicans basically only have one news source that they trust: Fox News.
The distrust of the news is a great tool for fascists, because in a post-truth world they can just substitute whatever nonsensical, hate-filled ideas they want for reality.
That’s what I thought but there’s slightly more than that.
The writer tried to trick ChatGPT 5, saying Vermont has no R in it. ChatGPT did say “wait, it does”. But then when pushed it said, “oh right there is no R in Vermont”.
I mean… the inability to know what it knows or not is a real problem for most use cases…