The Naples Daily News Piles On!

Wow, the Naples Daily News, about as crappy a newspaper as I have ever read, today published a very spot-on op-ed by "Gene Emery of Fort Myers ... a retired journalist who covered science, medicine and technology issues". Here's the link (hopefully not behind a paywall) and an excerpt:

Error rate for American artificial intelligence products: 62 percent

A few weeks ago when DeepSeek, a low-cost Chinese alternative to ChatGPT and other U.S. large language models, was released, its critics warned that DeepSeek's fail rate for people seeking reliable news and information about contentious issues was 83 percent.

The comparable error rate for American artificial intelligence products: 62 percent.

This isn't a technical revolution. It's an embarrassment. Those are ridiculously high rates of disinformation and misinformation for systems that − if you believe the media hype − are poised to revolutionize our lives.

Welcome to the party!