Easy Way shares my view of AI

[chuft]

I stayed at an inn on the West coast of Japan where there was a radium water bottle in the mini fridge. I know because there was a little printout advising to “let the tap water sit in the bottle so you can enjoy it more deliciously due to the effects of radium.”

LOLWUT! In the only country to have been hit by atomic bombs! And a recent meltdown at Fukushima!

[BRBFBI]

Perhaps it was a special amenity reserved for their American guests…

[chuft]

Black rain....

[boredjedi]

Gotta admit the Japanese are very weird

[chuft]

LOL. Look at what the AI is using for its sources. Anonymous posters on Reddit, the Paradox Games forum, and some alternate-history site.

[BRBFBI]

LOL. Look at what the AI is using for its sources. Anonymous posters on Reddit, the Paradox Games forum, and some alternate-history site.

Are those sources, or a selection of results copied form Google Search and pasted near the AI because Google thinks it would be handy if you didn't have to scroll down half a page? I don't know how it works, but presumably the model was trained on a lot more information than that and Google just has a wonky interface.

[chuft]

I don't give AI the benefit of the doubt.

[LazyPooky]

LOL. Look at what the AI is using for its sources.

The new AI Overviews.

With AI Overviews, people are using Search more than ever, and are more satisfied with their results, creating new opportunities to discover new websites.

https://blog.google/feed/were-bringi...ies-in-europe/

[possessor]

Google is praising Google lol. The AI overview is terribly innacurate and annoying.

[chuft]

Google could use AI to extend search monopoly, DOJ says as trial begins




Monopoly Round-Up: Google Generated $468 Billion Delaying Its Antitrust Trial




Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini

[LazyPooky]

DOJ should be careful. Now Google is like one big tumor. Let's break Google into little pieces and then you get metastases everywhere.

[LazyPooky]

I agree on this one

[BRBFBI]

“It’s heresy”
Is this chuft irl?

[chuft]

it is heresy

[possessor]

using AI to make music is disrespectful and disgraceful to anyone who makes music. it's like writing a book or a movie script using AI. id be pissed

[chuft]

Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent


Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion

[possessor]

serves them right for using reddit

[possessor]

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom...e-ai/103961208

Watched this video in class. Can absolutely not wrap my head around the fact AI is being used in scripts. It's utterly disgraceful and dumb to the art of literature...

[chuft]

And the latest evil from Google.


Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13


and lest we forget what happened last year



Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?

The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death.


Both of these articles are pretty chilling. The second one though was a real eye opener as to what's already going on out there with kids using AI as "friends" instead of humans.

[BRBFBI]

chuft In regards to the second article, I’m careful to not read too far into anecdotes. I see it a lot with self-driving cars. Something like 30,000 people die in car accidents in the US every year and most will never make the news unless something spectacular happened, but if a self-driving car gets stuck in wet concrete you’d better believe it will be on the front-page. I need to see the numbers (incidents per mile driven or something) to make an informed judgement. Same thing here. The suicide rate for males in the US is a little over 22/100,000 (a lot). If one of those could possibly be tied to an AI chatbot that doesn’t tell me very much except to make me awareof a potential vector of harm.

I thought this part was funny: The mother’s lawyer used to be an asbestos injury lawyer before pivoting to tech law. When asked about AI chatbots he said “to me, it’s like if you’re releasing asbestos fibers in the steets.” LOL. Real creative guy.

As far as the first article—I wish we could go back to when the internet was for adults.

[chuft]

Character.AI, which was started by two former Google A.I. researchers, is the market leader in A.I. companionship. More than 20 million people use its service, which it has described as a platform for “superintelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.”

Given most of their users seem to be children, I find this very disturbing.

As far as suicide rates - keep in mind chatbots are very new. Give it time for statistics to begin to appear. The effects of children having fake friends instead of real ones may take some time to make themselves felt.