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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] 78 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Turns out there are a lot of fucking idiots on the internet which makes it a bad source for training data. How could we have possibly known?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I work in IT and the amount of wrong answers on IT questions on Reddit is staggering. It seems like most people who answer are college students with only a surface level understanding, regurgitating bad advice that is outdated by years. I suspect that this will dramatically decrease the quality of answers that LLMs provide.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's often the same for science, though there are actual experts who occasionally weigh in too.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You can usually detect those by the number of downvotes.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not really. A lot of surface level correct, but deeply wrong answers, get upvotes on Reddit. It’s a lot of people seeing it and “oh, I knew that!” discourse.

    Like when Reddit was all suddenly experts on CFD and Fluid Dynamics because they knew what a video of laminar flow was.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's what I meant. I have seen actual M.D.s being downvoted even after providing proof of their profession. Just because they told people what they didn't want to hear.
    I guess that's human nature.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I get you. Didn’t mean to come across as a “that guy”. So completely agree with you. The laminar flow Reddit shit infuriated me because I have my masters in Mech Eng and used to do a lot of CFD. People were talking out of their ass on “I know laminar flow!”

    Well, see, it’s more than that. It’s not just a visual thing and…

    “Ahhhh! I know laminar flow! Downvote the heretic!”

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I was able to delete most of the engineering/science questions on Reddit I answered before they permabanned my account. I didn’t want my stuff used for their bullshit. Fuck Reddit.

    I don’t mind answering another human and have other people read it, but training AI just seemed like a step too far.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hey, buddy, some of us are smartarses, not idiots!

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