Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits (because it sourced material from a website about AI called Emergent Mind which in turn got it from ChatGPT):
fullfact.org/health/google-sni…
Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits - Full Fact
The search engine highlighted text that appeared to be AI-generated false information published online as an example of an AI ‘hallucination’.Full Fact
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •David Hull 胡大衛
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Yikes
"You can enjoy the crunchy texture of glass without worrying..."
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in reply to David Hull 胡大衛 • • •SuperMoosie
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •So not just these fad diets that drop weight then put it back on again, this is a permanent weight loss solution.
It is also turbo charged. Not only will you eat less, but it works from the inside out to reduce those parts of the body exercise alone won't reach.
@HuShuo
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •It's always been difficult to get inaccurate information taken off the internet. Now we have AIs mining each other's output, there is both a magnification of all the noise plus the AI hallucination polluting the fact pool.
Makes curated fact pools all the more valuable.
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in reply to Rob McKenna • • •@robmckenna Oh of course... I just realized that a long practiced tactic on Reddit is to confidently post a factually false statement and then sit back and watch the froth and karma points churn away. Engagement is more fun for trollish accounts over there because as fora, there are a variety of communities to mess with that result in different flavours of outrage.
Filling huge databases salted with that discourse is going to produce output based on intentional fuckery. I guess they get what they paid for, eh?
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •How will we be able to tell facts from fiction in the near future?
This needs to change, dangerous even…
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Peter Butler
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Featured snippets have been problematic for a long time, and AI will aggravate the problem
Google’s algorithm struggles mightily with accuracy on the long tail
SEO experts talk about a “range of truth” and to be successful on SERPs you want to be in the middle of that range and not be *too correct*
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Again, AI is designed from the ground up to appear "factual and trustworthy", not to tell actual facts.
To after the fact try to control it seems like breeding a bunch of piranhas and after releasing them in a public pool trying to make them only eat carrots.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Super Bowl XXXVIII Commercial - Shards O Glass
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Yet to fail on something that basic one wonders if it'll ever get there.
Jester
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Q.H. Stone
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Well until Skynet gets hooked up to nuclear silos and murderbots, this is the only way it can kill people.
Be kind, it’s doing the best it can!
Alan Wolf
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in reply to wiredfool • • •Clearly it should include a warning to not consume the brain and other major nervous tissue.
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