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I hope for that too. But I believe it wont. The complete Fake News topic just shows that everyone is happy trusting information that matches their beliefs. There is never any critical thinking or verification if it is actually true or just made up.

And its enough when such a technology is 80% right. Nobody will verify every answer if it is correct most of the time.

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Although kids necessarily don't have those ego dependent beliefs ingrained within them yet. So if they see that false information can be presented very convincingly, perhaps they learn not to trust just everything and in addition question what their parents are telling them.

The issue arises when the belief you have is tied to your ego so you only cherry-pick the evidence that will satisfy your ego and ignore/question everything else, but not this.

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