AI is the coworker who's sure about a decade they missed

You know the person who explains a decade to you that you actually lived through? That's the clip, and it's the best hallucination analogy I've heard.

My teenage staff love telling me '90s facts. I was there.

Total confidence. Half of it wrong. Not one ounce of hesitation. If you didn't already know better, you'd believe them, because certainty reads as truth.

That's your AI. It delivers a made-up fact with the identical tone it uses for a real one. There's no wobble, no "I think," no accuracy meter.

So the takeaway isn't that AI is dumb. It's that confidence is a worthless signal, and you verify because you can't feel the difference.

Who's the confidently-wrong person this instantly reminded you of?

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AI is the coworker who's sure about a decade they missed