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by nedt 843 days ago
In Germany and Austria we have those Querdenker telegram channels. All examples I‘ve given are coming from there. I‘d really like to say I‘ve made it up. But all you did with my message is also what I‘d do with AI output. It can be trained on wrong data, not understanding the question or make stuff up. Just like a human.
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I think you are (subconsciously) strawmanning the anti-vax movements like Querdenker. Most of these believe that mandatory vaccination (or reducing freedom of unvaccinated, or making it economically infeasible/required to work) is bad and goes against individual human rights, and that the risks and benefits of vaccines were not clearly communicated.

So, even if you did not make it up, it is twisting the viewpoints to reduce their legitimacy by tying these to ridiculous theories. One could do similar by cherrypicking vaccine proponents and their ridiculous theories (like claiming COVID came from the wet market).

If these channels are not indexed, I have a hard time believing you, given your misgivings and ridicule on your other statements. If a discussion about "Pandemic was faked to get children out of caves" can be sourced, please do so.

AI output is already more careful and fair and balanced on these matters.

Source is Die Zeit as written here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504716

You could also find it in other sources like Science Busters etc. Most of it will be German, because Germany and Austria does have a real problem with some (dis-)believes in the medical system.

Pretty sure other sources of human halicunations could be given (WMD in Iraq, lot of bad things because of religon, ... ). Point is not the strawman itself, but rather that any message needs evaluation. AI or not.