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17. War games and the terminator....

Reply to lame54 (Reply #16)

Sun Mar 1, 2026, 03:24 PM

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..... are part of the problem with AI chatbots and their public perception. They are trained on all of this scifi dreck, and then they mechanistically spit it out when prompted.

However entertaining, war games, terminator, space odyssey, etc. are fiction, not reality, and are driving misunderstanding and unnecessary fear.

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