Clay Davis wrote: > I've see several people write this. Can someone point me to some debate > I can review? It seems to me that if you set the autolearn threshold > fairly high and keep any eye on your bayes scoring, it would be a good > thing. > IMHO, autolearning is a good thing. However, exclusively autolearning without ever providing any manual training is a situation that can to lead to a mislearning disaster. The autolearner is most vulnerable when it has to make judgments and there's no existing training to compare against.
It's probably bad experience with that effect which has caused such gross over-reactions.