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Seth Finkelstein's avatar

For "chatbots get things wrong by instruction: they're told to say things that aren't true." - didn't the earlier Google Gemini debacle show this very obviously already? (diversity for everyone! - including Popes, Nazis, America founders, etc). The "white genocide" event is sort of the political inverse, but it's hard for me to see it as the very first time that social values were manifested by AI tools in embarrassing ways. Isn't this stuff the inevitable consequence of the huge political fight over what the chatbots WILL be told to say?

But regarding "distrust the chatbots", well, let's say the history of partisan "news" outlets is rather discouraging on that score.

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Ian Clark's avatar

If we all end up distrusting the things will there be any point in their continuance? But then you could say much the same about politicians …

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