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Former Memphis police officer changes plea to guilty in Tyre Nichols beating death
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Okay, respectable
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You have just been fed a complete fabrication that may or may not contain any factual information whatsoever. You have not asked a legal expert, or even a felon, you have asked the aggregate average of every person on the internet what their opinion is about pleading guilty, and this opinion was delivered to you by a word salad dispenser that has no idea what it is telling you. Do not take AI delivered information as fact. I repeat, Do not take AI delivered information as fact. AI will lie to you, boldly and confidently, about things that are obviously false. It will never tell you the truth because it does not know what the truth is. It may tell you the truth by accident, but it will never take pains to make sure it does so, and will freely and cheerfully invent BS information to fill in gaps.
Is there anything in this AI response specifically that you have a problem with, or is this just a blanket response to all AI content?
Blanket response, really, although that's a fair question because as far as I can tell this particular blurb sounds pretty sane. But I am not in any fashion an expert on this matter, being neither a lawyer nor a felon, so therefore neither I nor the OP knows if that's actually true.
Asking an AI anything is going to give you a response that is neither true nor false but hovers in an electron cloud like probability of being true, such that to actually make use of this information you'd need to do your own follow up research on it anyway. So just do the research in the first place. It's always a useless answer because AI is an actor that inherently cannot be trusted, it has no problem lying to you because it literally doesn't understand the difference between truth and falsehood. All it knows is patterns. If enough people get on the internet and tell everyone the world really is flat, Google's AI assistant will start telling you that too.
And the same should be applied to reading social media comments as well. Most people are willing to talk out of their ass about subjects they don't thoroughly understand. That doesn't mean all social media comments are useless, though. It just means you have to critically evaluate what you read.
Same with LLM's. They can provide useful information about and overviews of various topics, but it's important to understand their limitations and especially that they're prone to hallucinations. They shouldn't be used as any sort of authority on a subject, but make for a decent starting point.
To be fair there were only like 3 different answers in that list of 8. Most were some form of reduced sentencing/punishment and quicker result/trial/process.