Here's a thread on AI and it's fuckups. Now to start, there really are people who think AI is actually intelligent and will defend it at all costs, who think AI is evolving and will soon be better than humans, maybe that time has already arrived, or maybe the current version of "AI" is nothing but dumb tools that have no understanding of what the words it says means but are just assembling them from almost random selection from human expression in all it's glory and idiocy;
When a young girl asked her family’s Amazon Alexa home assistant for a fun challenge to keep her occupied, the device suggested one that could have killed her.
“Plug a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” it urged the 10-year-old, in a move that could’ve caused electrocution or sparked a fire.
Thankfully, the American girl’s mother was in the room and intervened, screaming: “No, Alexa, No!”
The question I have is, why is she telling Alexa no and not educating the kid on the dangers of electricity and following random advice from homicidal AI? I mean which one will have longer lasting effect, trying to tell a dumb bot no or educating the kid?
While you see people on fora post Chat GPT responses occasionally (and copilot or whatever the favourite flavour is this week) and it can be a useful aggregator, by far and away the demographic which employs AI the most is the alternative reality crowd who generally do not get positive responses to their content (though of course they are utterly convinced they are correct, and brilliant).
Having something agree with you is apparently the bomb, even if you are essentially talking to yourself whilst masturbating.
Had one recently who managed to get AI to agree that Anatomically Modern Humans were created by Venusian squid aliens with blue rh-negative blood as farm workers by the simple expedient of raping neanderthal women. They needed farm workers for Eden see, which was an agricultural colony which survived the inundation of Atlantis.
No, you really didn't miss anything.
Surprisingly, i take a rather dim view of LLM's these days.