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[+] -19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Do you also check if they listen to Joe Rogan? Fox news? Nobody can be trusted. AI isn't the problem, it's that it was trained on human data -- of which people are an unreliable source of information.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    AI also just makes things up. Like how RFKJr's "Make America Healthy Again" report cites studies that don't exist and never have, or literally a million other examples. You're not wrong about Fox news and how corporate and Russian backed media distorts the truth and pushes false narratives, and you're not wrong that AI isn't the problem, but it is certainly a problem and a big one at that.

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  • [+] -20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    AI also just makes things up. Like how RFKJr's "Make America Healthy Again" report cites studies that don't exist and never have, or literally a million other examples.

    SO DO PEOPLE.

    Tell me one of the things that AI does, that people themselves don't also commonly do each and every day?

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Real researchers make up studies to cite in their reports? Real lawyers and judges cite fake cases as precedents in legal preceding? Real doctors base treatment plans on white papers they completely fabricated in their heads? Yeah I don't think so, buddy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I think they’re saying that the kind of people who take LLM generated content as fact are the kind of people who don’t know how to look up information in the first place. Blaming the LLM for it is like blaming a search engine for showing bad results.

    Of course LLMs make stuff up, they are machines that make stuff up.

    Sort of an aside, but doctors, lawyers, judges and researchers make shit up all the time. A professional designation doesn't make someone infallible or even smart. People should question everything they read, regardless of the source.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To take an older example there are smaller image recognition models that were trained on correct data to differentiate between dogs and blueberry muffin but obviously still made mistakes on the test data set.

    AI does not become perfect if its data is.

    Humans do make mistakes, make stuff up, and spread false information. However they generally make considerably less stuff up than AI currently does (unless told to).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    AI does not become perfect if its data is.

    It does become more precise the larger the model is though. At least, that was the low-hanging fruit during this boom. I highly doubt you'd get a modern model to fail on a test such as this today.

    Just as an example, nobody is typing "Blueberry Muffin" into a stable diffusor and getting a photo of a dog.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Joe Rogan doesn't tell them false domain kowledge 🤷

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