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Your favorite science YouTubers are misleading you about AI — how to spot lies (www.youtube.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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A straightforward dismantling of AI fearmongering videos uploaded by Kyle "Science Thor" Hill, Sci "The Fault in our Research" Show, and Kurz "We're Sorry for Summarizing a Pop-Sci Book" Gesagt over the past few months. The author is a computer professional but their take is fully in line with what we normally post here.

I don't have any choice sneers. The author is too busy hunting for whoever is paying SciShow and Kurzgesagt for these videos. I do appreciate that they repeatedly point out that there is allegedly a lot of evidence of people harming themselves or others because of chatbots. Allegedly.

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[–] [S] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The author also proposes a framework for analyzing claims about generative AI. I don't know if I endorse it fully, but I agree that each of the four talking points represents a massive failure of understanding. Their LIES model is:

  • Lethality: the bots will kill us all
  • Inevitability: the bots are unstoppable and will definitely be created in the future
  • Exceptionalism: the bots are wholly unlike any past technology and we are unprepared to understand them
  • Superintelligent: the bots are better than people at thinking

I would add to this a Plausibility or Personhood or Personality: the incorrect claim that the bots are people. Maybe call it PILES.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Call the last one A for Agency and turn the acronym into an AI history reference: ELISA.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Hey while we’re here, I propose two more letters:

    S, standing for “stochastic parrot ignorance,”

    C, standing for “Chinese room does not constitute thought,”

    Now we can have ASS LICE

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