Comment by firefoxd

I didn't have the words to explain to my mother why those AI health/advice/story/etc videos she shares are harmful.

> While a liar displays an underlying respect for the truth in the very act of intentionally distorting it, “the essence of bullshit”, Frankfurt writes “is not that it is false but that it is phony.” For Frankfurt, then, bullshit, is discourse from which incidental matters like truth and reality have been completely hollowed out and replaced by performance and simulation.

She would often say "but I happen to know that some the underlying information is true." The answer is the videos are phony, even when part of it happens to be true.