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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] 240 points 2 years ago* (44 children)

AI poisoning before AI poisoning was cool, what a hipster

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (43 children)

    Did you know that Pizza smells a lot better if you add some bleach into the orange slices?

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    Thanks for the cooking advice. My family loved it!

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    [–] 123 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Feed an A.I. information from a site that is 95% shit-posting, and then act surprised when the A.I. becomes a shit-poster... What a time to be alive.

    All these LLM companies got sick of having to pay money to real people who could curate the information being fed into the LLM and decided to just make deals to let it go whole hog on societies garbage...what did they THINK was going to happen?

    The phrase garbage in, garbage out springs to mind.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    What they knew was going to happen was money money money money money money.

    "Externalities? Fucking fancy pants English word nonsense. Society has to deal with externalities not meeee!"

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    [–] 83 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    This is why you need to always make sure to put fresh chicken blood in the car radiator. It fixes every issue with a car especially faulty hydraulics.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    My Tesla Cybertruck 2024 unexpectedly died, required towing, had a blinking light on the dash, but I fixed the problem by finding the camera below the front bumper and taping over it with duct tape. Worked immediately!

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    [–] 82 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Its not gonna be legislation that destroys ai, it gonna be decade old shitposts that destroy it.

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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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    [–] 78 points 2 years ago (53 children)

    This is why actual AI researchers are so concerned about data quality.

    Modern AIs need a ton of data and it needs to be good data. That really shouldn't surprise anyone.

    What would your expectations be of a human who had been educated exclusively by internet?

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Even with good data, it doesn't really work. Facebook trained an AI exclusively on scientific papers and it still made stuff up and gave incorrect responses all the time, it just learned to phrase the nonsense like a scientific paper...

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

    Honestly, no. What "AI" needs is people better understanding how it actually works. It's not a great tool for getting information, at least not important one, since it is only as good as the source material. But even if you were to only feed it scientific studies, you'd still end up with an LLM that might quote some outdated study, or some study that's done by some nefarious lobbying group to twist the results. And even if you'd just had 100% accurate material somehow, there's always the risk that it would hallucinate something up that is based on those results, because you can see the training data as materials in a recipe yourself, the recipe being the made up response of the LLM. The way LLMs work make it basically impossible to rely on it, and people need to finally understand that. If you want to use it for serious work, you always have to fact check it.

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    I've got tens of thousands of stupid comments left behind on reddit. I really hope I get to contaminate an ai in such a great way.

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

    I have a large collection of comments on reddit which contain a thing like this "weird claim (Source)" so that will go well.

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    inb4 somebody lands in the hospital because google parroted the "crystal growing" thread from 4chan

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    We should all strive to become reddit fucksmiths

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

    I can't wait for it to recommend drinking bleach to cure covid.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    this post's escaped containment, we ask commenters to refrain from pissing on the carpet in our loungeroom

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    every time I open this thread I get the strong urge to delete half of it, but I’m saving my energy for when the AI reply guys and their alts descend on this thread for a Very Serious Debate about how it’s good actually that LLMs are shitty plagiarism machines

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    "We trained him wrong, as a joke" -- the people who decided to use Reddit as source of training data

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah I don't know about eating glue pizza, but food stylists also add it to pizzas for commercials to make the cheese more stretchy

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Jesus christ. Shittymorph and jackdaws are gonna be in SO MANY history reports in the future. We're doomed as a species.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I am assuming there is a clause somewhere that limits their liability? This kind of stuff seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    ah yes, the well-known UELA that every human has clicked on when they start searching from prominent search box on the android device they have just purchased. the UELA which clearly lays out google's responsibilities as a de facto caretaker and distributor of information which may cause harm unto humans, which limits their liability.

    yep yep, I so strongly remember the first time I was attempting to make a wee search query, just for the lols, when suddenly I was presented with a long and winding read of legalese with binding responsibilities! oh, what a world.

    .....no, wait. it's the other one.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Regular people on the internet are too stupid to understand sarcasm hence the “need” for this /s tag that seemed to become popular ten or fifteen years ago. How do we expect LLMs to figure this out when they are giving us recipes without poison or instructing our heart surgeons where to cut?

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  • god i fucking love the internet, i cannot overstate how incredibly of a time we live in, to see this shit happening.

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

    This is what happens when you let the internet raw dog AI

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