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Letter: This AI certainly didn't understand the word no

Published 16 July 2025

From Christine Wolak, Huntersville, North Carolina, US

Regarding “AI doesn’t understand the word ‘no’ “. The AI-generated summary of trail users’ comments for a particular trail in a popular hiking app said that there were ticks. But when I read through the comments myself, the only mention of ticks was that there were no ticks(31 May, p 16). This result really put a distrust of AI in me – what is the point of having a summary if it is wrong?

Issue no. 3552 published 19 July 2025

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