They need to read I, Robot. They had lying machines and dumb machines in that book. One robot decided that since it had never seen the factories on Earth, humanity didn’t create it, an all powerful god did. I wouldn’t trust that robot with diet advice.
Are these people unfamiliar with lying? People have been selling snake oil for ages.
But I guess there was a market for patent medicine, too
They view it as a specifically human trait, they don’t expect it from a machine.
They need to read I, Robot. They had lying machines and dumb machines in that book. One robot decided that since it had never seen the factories on Earth, humanity didn’t create it, an all powerful god did. I wouldn’t trust that robot with diet advice.