@glyph@mastodon.social @zzzeek@fosstodon.org @hynek@mastodon.social and even your post hinges on the charitable assumption that the end user is actually verifying the output in some way. at least for code, there's *some* way to do this: you can run it. but the sales pitch is "phew, the computer did it for me" and that's the sort of thing that haunts me. it seems unlikely that ari drennen is checking that the automated tax returns or summaries of their email are *accurate*, because that would involve manually doing exactly the same work