Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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not even slightly like work. I've never done anything that was sort of job-like. They were so unambiguously for my own fun. So I mean, I try to do some useful things here, but I'm sure I only do it because it's fun. I mean, I try to be useful at the same time. Well, let's talk about what's fun. I saw a tweet today that will maybe make your head spin a little bit in your skull. What do you think a…

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se AI is going to have access to the internet, right? It has to. What happens when AI has access to the internet? How is it going to know what's true? Or will it know and we won't? Or what if it finds out none of it's true, which would be closer to the truth for political stuff? It's kind of an interesting story, isn't it?

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if I were training the AI, I'd say, okay, these stories were all BS, these ones you can depend on. But that would be my opinion. If somebody else trained the AI, they would point to entirely different stories and say the ones that I think are real are all fake. So what's the AI going to do? I don't know. I actually don't know. We'll start getting rid of the trolls right away. Over in Florida the…

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