Captain Trips said:
No, they can lie -- lying doesn't necessarily mean "intent to lie." And if there is a bad sector on a disk, then the program won't run right, and the output will be misleading. Therefore, they CAN lie, although they won't know it being non-sentient.
Again, the computer can only process information that is given to it. Garbage in=Garbage out. Misleading information is only given if incorrect information in processed. I can get a computer to claim 1+1=3 if I fiddle with it.
Captain Trips said:
Uh, I hate to tell you this, but EVERY photo ever taken HAS been cropped -- cropping can (and does) include the photographer's decision of how to compose the image. It does NOT show what is outside the framing.
Exactly my point. The photo itself cannot lie. It is only an image of what the
photographer chose to take a picture of. The picture itself is only a record of that piece of the events of that time.