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Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits (because it sourced material from a website about AI called Emergent Mind which in turn got it from ChatGPT):
@cstross see also the snippet when you search for countries in Africa beginning with “k” (there are none, but Kenya is closest which starts with a k sound but is spelt differently) it’s also from the defunct emergent mind project. And/or Reddit as that version of GPT was heavily trained on Reddit and Google obviously….
@robmckenna @cstross Oh of course... I just realized that a long practiced tactic on Reddit is to confidently post a factually false statement and then sit back and watch the froth and karma points churn away. Engagement is more fun for trollish accounts over there because as fora, there are a variety of communities to mess with that result in different flavours of outrage.
Filling huge databases salted with that discourse is going to produce output based on intentional fuckery. I guess they get what they paid for, eh?
@Panopticola @robmckenna @cstross a big part of me wants to revert back to the internet circa 1999. I know it wasn’t overall better but it’s surely not as scary as this
@Panopticola @cstross word. Using social media as the training data fo large language models is a predictably bad idea but the bros have been huffing their own farts while getting fat on VC for so long that being wrong is not something they can conceive.
@robmckenna @Panopticola @cstross what was that project where a chat bot was trained by live users and went full MEgan (now showing on SKY movies, according to the billboards) in no time.
@NefariousCelt @Panopticola @cstross MS learnt from that though and decided to become a “world leader in a ethical AI” and hired a well respected team to do just that.
Just kidding.
When the plausible bullshit generator hype train rolled into town in ‘22 they fired them all and straight away (December 22) their Sydney not was telling people to go kill themselves and MS ignored it and now they are running polls on articles about murder.
@robmckenna
Once upon a time, not so long ago, we were filling the internet with good stuff (Wikipedia) but looks like we are now filling it with crap and burning the world down in doing so (so called AI being more compute intensive than what we had before)
@Panopticola @cstross
@robmckenna @cstross
Google snippets also use AI based algorithms think
https://www.google.com/search?q=Has+AI+ever+been+created
@cstross also when I read the phrase “it’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this” I get sick a little in my mouth. Sorry for exposing you.