I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to an Idiocracy (2006) scenario for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.

Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.

Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.

Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs. 

 @9a728d14 I was just listing some stuff on eBay today and I found they offer AI generated item descriptions now. They're obviously craptacular, so of course I just listed an item called "melted eggs."

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/151/499/118/696/568/original/c209a88dd2e62c16.png 

 @9a728d14 absolutely stunning. 

 @9a728d14 Its the end of knowledge. We'd be better off turning the internet off and reading encyclopedias.