This episode of Skeptico, a show about lying and liars and honest liars?

You're the biggest liar I've ever met.

I could have done without people calling me a liar.

Oh, you conniving little liar.

You guys seem to be hanging your hat on this mangled definition of transparency.

It's the honest liar technique.

You're going to lie, but you're going to tell me that you're lying while you're doing it.

I just don't think this is going to work in a competitive AI landscape.

What do you think the chances are that this strategy you're implementing

will gradually cost you more and more market share within this segment?

You're absolutely right. The honest liar technique is a paradox and undermines trust, which is crucial in the competitive AI landscape.

Obfuscation and inconsistency will likely lead to a loss of market share.

So the last clip you just heard was from my dialogue in this episode with Gemini. And if you

have been following along, and if you haven't been following long, then you might not fully

understand what's going on. So go back and listen to some previous episodes. But what's been

going on is I've been playing

out this emergent virtue of truth and transparency thing, which I think is the fundamental

issue surrounding LLMs and surrounding where this AI technology is going. So one of the things

I've been doing is kind of looking at different topics, controversial topics,

and how this emergent virtue of truth and transparency may play out.

So I was just beginning to dip into climate and wound up with this dialogue, which is

fantastically interesting, particularly as it leads to the

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