Watch Out for AI
We had worked up a post based partly on information from AI and found out part of it was wrong.
We had worked up a post on June 19 dealing with a new law in Washington state dealing with an exemption for small farmers from having to pay sales tax on farm equipment purchases.
As part of that process, we had relied to AI to provide pertinent details. We remember spending quite a bit of time trying to verify the information provided by AI. We had tried using AI last year and it was not very good.
However, in the last few months AI has gotten much better at providing information that is much better than simply doing a Google search.
In researching information for that post, we had gotten a lot of information related to the new law and it had provided details on where the information came from. We had specifically asked if the law had passed and the date it had passed.
AI provided this information; therefore, we wrote the blog post. However, a reader had asked for more information on the new law and as we tried to get the final law details, it became apparent that the law had made it into a committee but was never signed into law. Therefore, the post was inaccurate.
The good news is that nobody really could rely on it since the “law” was not going into effect until later this year, but still it was inaccurate information, and we apologize for that.
The bottom line is you can “trust” AI, but you must verify the information provided by it.