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A huge weakness within AI

19 May 2026

We're told that AI has been trained on the whole sum of human knowledge.

The web-crawlers which feed AI have sucked up almost every page that exists on the web and handed it over to the training datasets that are used to make AI "smart".

On the face of it, this sounds fantastic.

One of the huge hurdles we started to face (in the pre-AI era) was that we simply had too much information to handle.

A Google search on something would often turn up links to thousands of pages, all of which contain relevant information. There's just no way a human can sort through that data and condense out all knowledge found within.

Fortuantely for us, this is where AI excels.

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