Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

Google’s AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery’s positives.

    • livus
      4•1 year ago

      He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect

      So, you’re basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths.

      This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means.

      But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish.

      And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully.

      • @ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8•1 year ago

        I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he’d been ineffective, he’d have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn’t have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him.

        • livus
          1•1 year ago

          This is true, I guess the difference in the Jim Jones scenario is whether you define effective leadership as being able to get your plan carried out (even if that plan is killing everyone you lead) or whether you define it as achieving good outcomes for those you lead.

          Hitler didn’t do either of those things in the end so I still don’t rate him, but I can see why you would if you just look at the first part of his reign.

          AI often produces unintended consequences based on its interpretations - there’s a great TED talk on some of these - and I think with the LLMs we have way more variables in our inputs than we have time to define them. That will probably change as they get refined.

      • ninjakitty7
        14•1 year ago

        Honestly AI doesn’t think much at all. They’re scary clever in some ways but also literally don’t know what anything is or means.

        • @aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          They don’t think. They think 0% of the time.

          It’s algorithms, randomness, probability, and statistics through and through. They don’t think any more than a calculator thinks.

      • Bluskale
        0•1 year ago

        LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level.

        • @aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          We should always fact check things we believe we know and seek additional information on topics we are researching.

          Yay yet another person saying that primary information sources should be verified using secondary information sources. Yes, you’re right it’s great actually that in your vision of the future everyone will have to be a part time research assistant to have any chance of knowing anything about anything because all of their sources will be rubbish.

          And that’s definitely a thing people will do, instead of just leaning into occultism, conspiratorial thinking, and group think in alternating shifts.

          All I have to say is thank fuck Wikipedia exists.

        • @somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Nobody said we were relying on that. We’ll all keep searching. We’ll all keep hoping it will bring abundance, as opposed to every other tech revolution since farming. I can only think at the surface level though. I definitely have not been in the science field for 25 years.