Honestly AI's hallucinating isn't a whole lot different than real life. Only a small minority of humans fact check anything anymore before believing it. So "irl", we see people like Alex Jones that get up on their big platforms and start spewing nonsense, but if they sound confident enough and it confirms what you want out of the world, then people latch onto it as fact and don't bother to verify. You see this across…
You can cut that part out of the statement. Humans in general are terrible at fact checking anything outside of walking outdoors and looking up at the sky. Leaving that in points to some glorious past where people were not idiots, that unfortunately never existed.
>But when we hear someone speak with confidence and we don't care enough to fact-check, then people just believe it.
When I was a teenager and was learning how people worked I came to the independent discovery of the Big Lie. Telling small lies with components that the listener may have understood didn't work well. But making up a nearly unbelievable fabrication with something the listener did not understand well at all, and saying it with conviction, works a scary percentage of the time.