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[–] 159 points 2 months ago (23 children)

Wouldn’t senators have access to actual experts who, unlike ChatGPT, would be correct close to 100% of the time?

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  • [–] [S] 75 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but that would require effort and why not shake the magic box and see what falls out instead?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Not only effort, but money.

    There's also the possibility that an actual expert will tell you stuff you don't want to hear. GPT will lead you down whatever path you're already on like a hotdog hanging from a stick leads a dog.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Every senator and their staff are constantly orbited by lobbyist "experts" offering to write new laws for them. Actual experts are working at institutions, and are not taking senators to expensive dinners by helicopter and limousine.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago

    A senator could get an actual expert on a phone call in minutes if they wanted. Fucking no-name YouTubers are able to talk to experts all the time. It’s not hard! But I am guessing you are more referring to the dinners part. It really needs to be illegal to give elected officials anything.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There used to be whole ass boards appointments for this, like usa had the Office of Technology Assessment working for Congress, where they paid various experts from various fields to come in and review stuff and give advice.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    It's a mix, but yes. The oil companies are very interested in making sure the "experts" are theirs.

    ChatGPT might be better, depending on how often he "corrects" it.

    Also a future issue of how much influence these companies have. I hear NYT is already targeting ads at AI.

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

    All the "experts in Medicare/ Medicaid" in DC are payed shills of the health insurance industry recommending they both be dissolved or privatized.

    Honestly chatgpt might be better as it does have a tendency to "both sides" political topics. Of course you can inject your own biases in the question and chatgpt will usually agree with you, but it'll at least sometimes give you pushback which an insurance lobbyist will never do.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    Senators are also inundated with biased sources, I imagine tuberville has been in an echo chamber for his entire life. A basic AI response might actually be more nuanced and honest.

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

    Lmao. Your unflinting biological bias is hilarious. Even with the qualifier that is absurd

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    You’re right that it’s nowhere near 100% like I suggested. But ya, I wear that bias with pride.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    I get your bias, but in this instance the human experts he'd be listening to would be health insurance lobbyists, not people who care about others' health. ChatGPT, which is obviously incapable of feeling compassion, may very well have more compassion for human life compared to those.

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

    I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that he’d be listening to only lobbyists. Theoretically, one could surround themselves with a diverse group of actual experts.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The dumbest people alive are running everything and have unlimited access to a narcissism powered bullshit machine.

    What a disaster.

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  • [–] 86 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Can someone tell this dipshit that he can use his phone to call actual experts and talk with them?

    Jesus fuck we are governed by the stupidest motherfuckers available in a given tristate area.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The problem is having enough experts for confused but interested people to talk to, having a "live" response to questions is always going to get a stronger reaction from people

    it's kind of what is supposed to happen with news interviews but with people having good reasons to not trust big news outlets looking to something even as bad as ai makes sense to me

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    This is what terrifies me, not whether AI will get to the point where it will be reliable, but that people won't know. People are idiots with no critical thinking skills, and every day they become more idiotic.

    Just because ChatGPT sounds confident, it doesn't mean it is right.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's not even reliability, AI is pushed to agree with users to increase the time they spend interacting with it.

    If this asshat asks keeps asking about things that make it seem clear he doesn't think poor people deserve medical care or government assistance it's going to start telling him he's absolutely right and has cut through the political discourse to see the simple truth that some people prefer to leech off of the government instead of finding a job.

    It doesn't matter how fucked up your world view is, if you keep talking to AI in an ongoing context window it will start to agree with you.

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

    I can see it going both ways. If he starts new chats all the time, it could give him info he usually isn't exposed to.

    I don't think people who use voice AI tend to start new chats though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    He has a whole lot of experience in not listening to anything he doesn't want to hear.

    When the AI tells him something he doesn't like then it's a stupid thing repeating commie libral talking points. When it tell him he's right that the poor shouldn't have health care anyway and he's a rare and brilliant thinker then it's finally telling the truth.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    A couple of years ago I asked chatgpt to recommend some areas in Portugal with a fairly mild climate, and it recommended a place that I looked up, to find the climate was described by the locals as 10 months of winter and 2 months of hell.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Can confirm. People lean so much on tech they switch off their brains. Gps and parking cameras come to mind. The number of people crossing multiple lanes last minute to hit their exits and taking up to 5 minutes to L park is getting ridiculous.

    Tech should be a tool, not a crutch for able adults.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    This is how I use my GPS:

    • What's the next turn? Okay, thanks, I'll look for it.
    • What's my exit? Okay, I'll look for it.

    I once asked a family member to be my navigator while I was driving their car in their town. They took their phone out, let the GPS give the instructions, and then proceed to start watching tiktoks. I missed my first exit because the GPS told me "this is your exit" as I was passing the exit.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago

    Great, so if it says something he doesn't agree with he can just give it a weak amount of pushback and it'll completely flip over to agreeing with him.

    "Experts predict that a Medicare for All policy would actually lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes for a majority of people."

    "What? That can't be right! Sounds like woke bullshit!"

    "You're absolutely right!"

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

    What a typical republican. Who cares if it‘s 100% correct, but it makes me feel good about what I hear.

    Feels before reals, a snowflake in his safe space.

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

    If this was a software engineer discussing how to architect something, I'd just nod and agree, it's not 100% correct but whatever, it's like a rubber ducky method on steroids.

    HOWEVER this is a fucking politician who writes laws. From a national security perspective, this is 100% fucked. There is huge gain to be had out of monitoring their accounts alone, but this is beyond that. It means monitoring and controlling their thought processes.

    All Sam Altman has to do is give a special prompt or fine tuned model to politicians and have it lean towards policies he agrees with. You can puppet these dudes by controlling their internal monologue with LLM if the end up relying on it for this... It's totally fucked.

    It's as if it was the 70s and one of your US senators was going to a psychologist who was secretly a USSR agent. It's that level of fucked.

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

    The LLM models are already designed to be compliant and not turn people off to their use by correcting them or making them feel bad about their opinions by telling them they’re wrong.

    IOW, pushback will be minimal if it exists at all so people stay engaged.

    Grok has already been tuned to not contradict right wing views or at least not criticize them so quickly as it had previously famously done. I haven’t heard about the others, but I’m sure they all bend the knee similarly to their wealthy overlords.

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

    To be fair, in Tommy's case, it's better to have chatgpt write the laws.

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  • You think the person who blocked all military promotions because of women's health care is actually interested in doing the right thing? I think he is waiting for that OpenAI donation to arrive after he said that.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Tbf he's just a senator, he's not writing policy, he just signs whatever the relevant industry puts on his desk.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    As someone who has had significantly more concussions than average I deeply resent being associated with people like this.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I mean, ChatGPT us almost certainly far less "evil" than it's creators, and would call that "cartoonishly evil" and mock him.

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    I always knew he was and evil prick. But I assumed there was some kind of evil predatory intelligence behind the facade. You know, kind of like a serial kill.

    Funny that he just proved me wrong. Turns out he really is a fucking idiot.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Artificial imbecility meets natural imbecility.

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

    Cheer up they could have been asking to Grok...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    tommy tuberville is making me laugh the most.

    we're really just living in a bad parody movie at this point.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I mean, he is a republican. They are hired for being controllable pedos, not smarts.

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

    I get it, less pressure than talking to a real person, unlikely to get you outted for asking dumb questions, and he seems aware that the answers given need to be fact checked.

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

    he seems aware that the answers given need to be fact checked.

    [X] doubt

    I am 100% certain Tommy fucking Tuberville's notion of "fact checking" consists solely of asking "does this confirm my shitty, racist and anti-scientific biases or not?"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I guarantee you, it's a lot closer to correct on any subject you want to mention than Tommy Tuberville, unless it's about molesting children.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    ChatGPT is a series of Tubervilles.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Honestly, most Republican politicians would benefit listening to ChatGPT over their own inner voice.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Every time I see this dumb motherfucker's name, I just know it's going to be some retarded dumbassery.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    republicans and dinos almost never read what they sign into law. so it fits.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Every single time I hear about Petey Potatotown it's the new stupidest thing I've ever heard.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'd imagine that it would be something more like how it's done in Hollywood, where there's a voice.

    It's still bewildering to me, since for the longest time, I did just think of it as being Hollywood convention, since there's no good way to show thoughts in an audiovisual medium.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    If you want to speak to a human being on a car trip and you have no one to talk to find a discord with active voice channels, probably outside the technical scope of a senator though... If only they had more resources /sarcasm

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    These things have a very specific use and it's performing (error prone) calculations, just like all conputer programs. The only advantage is they can look up the input data and figure out what equations to use. I wish people didn't anthropomorphize them.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Where should they be getting their information?

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