AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot : techtakes

[+] the_q@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Effectively, what LLMs do is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for "prompts" to indicate your area(s) of interest, then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.

Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Baldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con^[https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/] that you might appreciate, if you haven't read it yet. :)

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 3 months ago

In reality it just makes you stupid, but faster.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 3 months ago

obligatory:

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

I'M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY'RE ALL FP4

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Wtf I love AI now

[-] Angelevo@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago

We did not need 'AI' to get to this point.. People are freaking out over a mirror.

[+] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world -15 points 3 months ago

You can set them up so that they don't do that. It's just the companies running the chat bots set them up that way because that's what people expect now.

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

yeah the trick is to already know you're an idiot

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

Pay no attention to ChatGPT, we purposely trained him wrong... as a joke.

yeah ok

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

my face to your foot style

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

"you can set the sycophancy engines so they aren't sycophancy engines"

I'll take "Shit that's Impossible" for 500, Alex

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

It's still telling you what you want to hear but with a different aesthetic. This will always be the case for systems that can't even perceive it's own lies.

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