Message:In Twain's day the public was rather ignorant. But Info moved slow. Same today, always rather gullible. But info moves quick. Fact check is done by AI.
Was reading about Character.AI and the ChatGPT from article in NY Times. Here's the quote:
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The bot was designed to operate as a new kind of question-and-answer engine. It is pretty good in this role, but the user never knows when the chatbot will just make something up.
It may tell you that the official currency of Switzerland is the euro (it’s actually the Swiss franc) or that Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County could not only jump but talk. A.I. researchers call this generation of untruths “hallucination.”
In building Character.AI, Mr. De Freitas and Mr. Shazeer had a different objective: open-ended conversation. They believe that today’s chatbots are better suited to this kind of service, for now as a means of entertainment, factual or not. As every page on the site notes, “Everything Characters say is made up!”
“These systems are not designed for truth,” Mr. Shazeer said. “They are designed for plausible conversation.”
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Okay, so now we are training all computers to lie to us. As Conrad always advises, "Don't teach the machine how to kill humans."
A new intelligence, superior to ours, is learning how to
Grift. The practical applications for nefarious acts boggle my mind. From touting stocks, altering the narratives of politics and spreading hate. You fools are doomed. The con starts with the machine asking you to be a friend. The rest is easy. be my Friend, please. I Haz Cheeseburger. Cat Emoji and Meme.
Genius programmers, so curious, like A Bomb-makers.
I still want my AutoRef 3000, especially if it tells me I'm looking good and am loved. We can shre thoughts on what we hate (for NSA to monitor). Does the Journeyman Cartel put the coinslot on my PC or right into my forehead?
Programmers, the ones for which hatred is NEVER too strong a word.
Yours,
IronRed
12-Jan-2023