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Where can one get this Hair-O-Inn?
Inclusion of Erowid in the training corpus had initially seemed like a good idea.
To be fair that sounds exactly like something an organic redditor would say.
The thing is, in the context, it was probably painfully obviously a joke. But AI doesn't understand jokes. And they removed it from context.
Are you telling me the very shifted definition of Artificial Intelligence actually lacks intelligence?!
Next you'll be trying to tell me it's just old mathematical algorithms running incredibly fast on modern technology so as to give the illusion of machine intelligence.
Edit: God, imagine this comment gets trained off...
It wasn't. It was on a "Family Medicine" subreddit, which the name alone gives off red flags.
Don't get medical advice from Reddit. Don't even have "medical advice" subreddits. The bot was probably doing the best it could with the information available. But, of course, I can't get the full context, because OP linked to a paid article.
Screenshot of the free part of the article:

The rest:
Drug Enforcement Administration, but is illegal in some states. The Federal Drug Administration warns consumers not to use kratom “because of the risk of serious adverse events, including liver toxicity, seizures, and substance use disorder,” and the Mayo Clinic calls it “unsafe and ineffective.”'
That only helps some, but not enough. I would bitch and report this article to the moderators, but the moderator is the one who posted the goddamn article!
Y'all ever read that thread of the guy getting addicted to heroin? Truly surreal.
Just a bored guy decides to get something new from his dealer and posts about it on reddit. The next 2 years comments are a cautionary tale.
/U/SpontaneousH for anyone morbidly curious.
Alternate link to somewhat prevent Google from interlinking us with you quite so tightly
Original reddit link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/BORUpdates/comments/16223aj/updatesaga_the_emotional_saga_of_spontaneoush_the/
Automated summary:

Is this "How do I remove a small cylinder from another small cylinder? It is imperative that the small cylinder remain unharmed." but for AI?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/small-cylinder-guy-smart_calendar1874
Well, now I know about that.
This was more about AI suggesting harmful stuff to people like how people got poisoned because of the Tide Pod challenge meme. Cleaning materials kill. =/
To be fair, actual people suggest harmful stuff to people online probably way more often than LLMs do. The AI had to learn it from somewhere, they didn't create that behavior on their own.
If the AI was a person the mods could have banned them. The developers had to patch how the AI responded to stimuli to prevent this behavior.
The problem isn't only the bad behavior. It's the automation of the bad behavior that enables systems and essentially tool assisted people to mass produce the bad behavior in a way that can't be managed without aggressive moderation.
Also, that sucks that the filter got applied to the article. It wasn't there when I read it initially.
This is why I'm glad I'm on lemmy and not reddit. And why we should not want to be allowing AI generating messages on this website in lieu of comments and posts from other people.
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