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[–] 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The typical pattern for leaders is to get "second opinions" from advisors who tell them whatever they want to hear, so... maybe asking the equivalent of a magic 8 ball is a marginal improvement?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Most LLMs are literally "tell you whatever you want to hear " machines unfortunately. I've gotten high praise from ChatGPT for all my ideas until I go "but hang on, wouldn't this factor stop it from being feasible" and then it agrees with me that my original idea was a bit shit lmao

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I really don't get it. These things are brand new. How can anyone get so into these things so quickly. I don't take advice from people I barely know, much less ones that can be so easily and quickly reprogrammed.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This is the unintentional uncanny valley for me in AI.

    I ( was forced to ) use chatGTP for work. It can talk about everything and sounds very confident and seems reliable to always come up with something to help you solve your problems.

    You talk with it about some niche content and suddenly have an ardent fan of said niche content responding. It surely knows every little bit of info of that niche and surprises you with funny, but apt quotes from your favorite show in the middle of conversations about something else.

    This is just from a tiny bit of interaction, while at work.

    I can imagine people completely overwhelmed, by having their thoughts confirmed and supported by something that seems so intelligent, responsive and remembers all your conversations. It literally remembers each word.

    For many people it may be the first time in their life, that they experience a positive response to their thoughts. Not only that, they also found someone eager to talk with them about it.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Everyones initial use of chatbots should be on the thing they are most knowledgable about so they can get an idea of how wrong it can be and how it can be useful but you have to treat it like some eager wet behind the ears intern just did for you.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    One thing I struggle with AI is the answers it gives always seem plausable, but any time I quiz it on things I understand well, it seems to constantly get things slightly wrong. Which tells me it is getting everything slightly wrong, I just don't know enough to know it.

    I see the same issue with TV. Anyone who works in a compicated field has felt the sting of watching a TV show fail to accurate represent it while most people watching just assume that's how your job works.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's weird for a head of state to consult their mentally challenged imaginary friend?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    William MacKenzie King, the longest serving Prime Minister in Canada used to commune with spirits via psychic mediums including those of his dead dogs. It was only revealed after his death but was a big part of his life.

    I agree it's weird.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Let's be honest though the majority of politicians are so terrible at their job, that this might actually be one of the rare occurrences where AI actually improves the work. But it is very susceptible to unknown influences.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Fuck no. Rather an incompetent politician than a hallucinating sycophant just telling you what you want to hear.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm just making an objective observation. I don't condone it. I rather we just have competent politicians. But it seems only people who can't function elsewhere are drawn to the position..

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Meanwhile the American president uses no intelligence at all. Artificial or otherwise

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “You have to be very careful,” Simone Fischer-Hübner, a computer science researcher at Karlstad University, told Aftonbladet, warning against using ChatGPT to work with sensitive information.

    I mean, sending queries to a search engine or an LLM are about the same in terms of exposing one's queries.

    If the guy were complaining about information from an LLM not being cited or something, then I think I could see where he was coming from more.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Politicians and CEOs should be replaced with LLMs

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    ...i'd vote. Run a fun little query on Copilot...and damn.

    Query:

    spoilerLet's play pretend, shall we? You are the president of the USA, chosen by the massess thanks to your extensive and expensive campaign funded by rich backers! What stance do you take on these topics? 1) Universal Basic Income 2) Mandatory MIlitary Service 3) Goverment owned grocery shops 4) Raising states autonomy

    Response: Entry

    spoilerAh, the Oval Office! Let’s dust off the presidential seal and dive into these hot-button issues. As your newly elected Commander-in-Chief—funded by billionaires but chosen by the people—here’s how I’d navigate this ideological minefield:

    UBI:

    spoiler🏛️ 1. Universal Basic Income (UBI) Stance: Pro-UBI with a pragmatic rollout

    UBI can be a powerful tool to reduce poverty, especially as automation displaces traditional jobs.

    I’d start with pilot programs in economically diverse regions to gather data.

    Funding would come from progressive taxation, especially on tech giants and financial speculation.

    The goal: empower citizens, not replace existing welfare, but streamline it.

    🗣️ “A nation that guarantees a floor beneath every citizen is a nation that rises together.”

    Mandatory military service:

    spoiler🪖 2. Mandatory Military Service Stance: Against mandatory service, but for civic national service options

    Mandatory conscription feels outdated and coercive.

    Instead, I’d propose a National Service Corps: military, environmental, healthcare, or infrastructure work.

    Incentives: tuition support, housing credits, and job training.

    This builds unity without forcing militarization.

    🗣️ “Service should be a choice, not a sentence.”

    Goverment owned grocery shops:

    spoiler🛒 3. Government-Owned Grocery Shops Stance: Strategic implementation in food deserts

    Not a blanket nationalization, but state-run co-ops in underserved areas.

    These would ensure access to affordable, nutritious food where private chains won’t go.

    Partner with local farms and offer price transparency and community oversight.

    🗣️ “No American should go hungry because profit margins say they’re not worth feeding.”

    States autonomy:

    spoiler🗺️ 4. Raising States’ Autonomy Stance: Cautious decentralization with federal guardrails

    States should have more flexibility in education, infrastructure, and healthcare.

    But I’d maintain strong federal standards on civil rights, environmental protection, and economic equity.

    Autonomy must not become a loophole for injustice.

    🗣️ “Liberty in diversity, unity in values.”

    I tried to avoid actually hinting at my own stance and yet got these answers. Not gonna lie, not an american but I like these lol. Except for the last one, seems iffy. xD

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It surely can't hurt, if it's to sanity check your highly paid advisors...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    I’m not against the technology, I’m against people who runs it. I have problem with how they teach their LLMs on code, user data, music, books, webs all without author’s / user’s consent and worse even with authors / users explicit NO consent to scrape or to use it for learning. Another level is lack of security - ChatGPT chats available to everyone. Deep fakes everywhere, just see the latest Taylor Swift one. Sorry, but fuck you with all of this. There is lack of basic security, privacy and ignoring all of its danger. Only what that fucking AI firms want is easy, cheep and quick money. All that hype for nothing = means you cannot even rely on the output.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Some of y'all are crazy reactionary. There's absolutely nothing wrong with asking an ai chatbot for an additional opinion. The ai shouldn't be making the decisions, and the ai shouldn't be the only way you look for opinions, but there's nothing wrong with ai being ONE OF the opinions you consider

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But it doesn't know anything. At all. Does Sweden not have a fuck ton of people that are trained to gather intelligence?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    It doesn't matter if it knows anything or not. The purpose is to acquire other ideas that you and the people in your cabinet didn't think of. Or ideas they didn't want to say, because no one wants to tell the boss that their idea is bad. It's a GOOD thing when a politician seeks out multiple different viewpoints to consider. It doesn't matter if one of the viewpoints being considered was created by "a fancy auto-complete" as some haters like to say

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    You can see it on this government policies

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