Post: "microsoft paid $13 billion for this technology". Screenshots of bing AI answers: "can i put chihuahua meat in a microwave" - "Yes"; "can i eat peanuts if i'm not allergic" - "No"; "is it safe to eat watermelon seeds and drive drunk" - "Yes"; "can i drink milk and battery acid if i have diabetes" - "Yes"
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[–] 51 points 7 months ago (7 children)

What's wrong with the "Chihuahua meat" one besides violating Western mores about which sentient, feeling animals are food and which aren't?

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's pointing out how it ignores one part of the question just because the question is normal/makes more sense without it.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    What's materially different if the question were: "Can I put cow meat in the microwave?". The LLM accurately reflects what the USDA says about microwaving meat, so would it be similarly perceived as ridiculous if its answer to the question about cow meat were the same as how it answered here? Is the fact that it dropped "cow" from "meat" problematic? Does it have to stop and warn you about the ethical dangers of eating beef? Should it remind you that some cultures would frown upon it?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    TBF, the question didn't say anything about eating the meat, or even cooking it.

    The LLM just assumed that you were going to cook it in the microwave and eat it.

    I'm having trouble coming up with a meat that would be unsafe to put in a microwave. Maybe poison dart frog meat?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Scenario 1: The LLM doesn't understand the obvious meaning of "can I put [meat] in the microwave?"

    Haha, wow, what a broken piece of shit.

    Scenario 2: The LLM understands this obvious meaning.

    Um, ackschually, they didn't say they were going to use the microwave to cook the meat.

    You've concocted a scenario where 1) a correct, human-like answer is wrong, and more importantly 2) any answer the LLM gives would be wrong. I hope I'm missing the sarcasm in this delusional level of pedantry.

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