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Garbage In, Garbage Out

Garbage in, garbage out is the plain rule that any system's output can only be as good as what you put into it. No amount of clever software fixes inputs that are wrong, missing, or too vague to mean anything. It is as true of AI as it is of a spreadsheet formula.

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