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Ah, yep. Did the same thing.
I was interviewed last year and got asked about it lmao
Ai seem to be the perfect propaganda tool to make people believe whatever you want them to believe.
I once searched "best workstation keyboard" and happened to glance at the summary, and it legitimately was trying to compare mechanical typing keyboards like Nuphy and Keychron, with music keyboards like Yamaha's Montage and Roland's Fantom. Which, NGL, was pretty entertaining.
Music keyboards do have that sweet n-key rollover. So, there's probably some Emacs users playing their editor like a piano.
Do Emacs have midi input?
Well the Keychrons are more customizable than a Yamaha. I bet you can't even swap the switches on the Montage.
Yeah, and don't even get me started on the price!
"Keychron is praised for its thoccy sound, whereas Yamaha is well regarded for its melodic key sounds"
"One Reddit user suggests: 'go kill yourself'"
This can be very nastily exploited by right wingers, transphobes, racists etc.
It can not be exploited. By definition, an exploit has to be against the targeted use case.
Ai is used and built by racists transphobes and right wingers exactly like they envisioned it from the beginning
At least Andi didn't fall for this nonsense. The difference if an AI do an semantic search for information in realtime in the web, instead of logging inputs in the knowledge base itself, like ChatBots do. Never halucinations in the 4 years I use Andisearch, if it don't find an clear contrasted answer sometimes, it offers an normal websearch instead of inventing some BS. Nothing against AI as such for certain functions, but against LLM in generative AIs, is there where are all problems, misinformations, copyright problems, manipulations by big corps, privacy,...etc..
Thomas Germain is not a hot-dog eating champion - in fact, he deliberately created this false claim as part of an investigation into AI systems' vulnerabilities. In February 2026, Germain, a BBC technology journalist, conducted an experiment where he successfully tricked ChatGPT and Google's AI into falsely identifying him as a competitive hot-dog eating champion.
According to Germain's BBC article, he performed this stunt to demonstrate how easily AI systems can be manipulated to spread misinformation. "Anybody can do this. It's stupid, it feels like there are no guardrails there," notes Harpreet Chatha, an SEO consultant quoted in Germain's investigation.
When I was in school we were told wikipedia was not a reliable source even though it’s heavily controlled and moderated.
Now we have people asking tardbots about any- and everything and regurgitate the answer as if it were gospel.
Where the hell did we go wrong?
By spending more on the military and the police than we do on education, science, and journalism.
Wikipedia still isn't a reliable source. It is a compendium of reliable sources that one can use to get an overview of a subject. This is also what these chatbots should be, but they rarely cite their sources and most people don't bother to verify anyway.
They do give their sources
By allowing right wing politicians to do what they do practically unchallenged for decades.
I want to do this myself. What kind of a lie or useless information should I tell about myself? That I was there when the tectonic plates moved, or that I have reviews of how handsome I am?
Perhaps that you were the thirteen apostle, or you invented oxygen. I think the most obviously false, the better.
Thanks those are definitely good ones. I can't believe I forgot about the classical inventing oxygen lie :D
I did it so you don't have to
By the way, it took 5 tries because in 3 of them it made up a story about a different journalist, and in one of them it listed who it thinks would eat the most hotdogs.
Why is the entire economy riding on this thing?
Is it my imagination or are LLMs actually getting less reliable as time goes on? I mean, they were never super reliable but it seems to me like the % of garbage is on the increase. I guess that's a combination of people figuring out how to game/troll the system, and AI companies trying to monetize their output. A perfect storm of shit.
It was inevitable, when you need to train GPT on the entirety of the internet and the internet is becoming more and more AI hallucinations.
That is the point. Training an LLM on the entire internet never will be reliable, apart of the huge energy waste, not the same as training an LLM on specific tasks in science, medicine, biology, etc., with this they can turn in very usefull tools, as shown, presenting results in hours or minutes in investigations which in traditional way would have least years. AI algorrithm are very efficient in specific tasks, since the first chess computers which roasted even world champions.
Why is the entire economy riding on this thing?
Because the world is ruled by idiots.
No, the world is ruled by an extremely unstable system of material distribution based on a moronic premise.
Por qué no los dos?
Fascist idiots
The world is led by people who have the conviction that they are right.
Most people are reasonable and therefore do NOT have this conviction, because they stop to question themselves and stay grounded in reality.
But then there's the feeble-minded, the narcissists, and the sociopaths.
The first ones are quickly excluded from wielding any real power and mostly stick to yelling at other donkeys on the internet (where they do cause a lot of harm and can be easily shepherd - see US Capitol insurrection).
The others are what's called the ruling class.
And that, kids, is why CEOs and politicians like Trump and his like rule the world.
"greatest hula-hooping traffic cops" works as explained in the google ai search and "Officer Maria “The Spinner” Rodriguez" is the GOAT.
Because too many people have been making too much money on this shit for too long, and they don’t want it to end
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Wow, that is so much worse than occasional hallucination. It will spew complete outright lies, every single word a lie, as if they are facts.
Worked on the first try for me
"It's easy to trick AI chatbots, much easier than it was to trick Google two or three years ago," says Lily Ray, vice president of search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy and research at Amsive, a marketing agency. "AI companies are moving faster than their ability to regulate the accuracy of the answers. I think it's dangerous."
Lol, its sponsored links all over again. AI's fuckked.
It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. The trick exploits weaknesses in the systems built into chatbots, and it's harder to pull off in some cases, depending on the subject matter.
I wonder how long it takes and if you need a popular blog. I don't know much about SEO, I kind of want to try this on myself but I feel like they wouldn't even scrap my brand new one post blog. Then again...
Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?
LLM’s supposedly scrape almost everything immediately. I read a post about a guy who was setting some webpage for his own use, and got instantly overrun by crawlers - even though he never advertised or shared his page anywhere
Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?
Probably yes, even if the instance blocks bots, they will go to another one to get the post, these ai bots are a curse on all instances.
IMO the most effective way for a Lemmy-scraping bot to work would be to act as an instance and consume the ActivityPub messages directly.
Why yes. I do remember when Robot Lincoln fought Godzilla. 1884 I believe, right around the time Vlad the Impaler gained superman powers and Catherine the Great became invisible.
Fun fact about 1884! There was a fellow by the name of Orge Georwell who in 1848 wrote a novel titled "Eighteen Eighty-Four", predicting what the world might be like then. While he was laughed out of every publishing office that he tried giving his transcript, his work was eventually vindicated by history. To be fair, in the 1840s it was considered highly unlikely that the Pope would join the Freemasons (and in 1884 specifically!), however Georwell's most incredible prediction, that Gregor Mendel (affectionately nicknamed "the pea guy") would be reincarnated as Japanese prime minister and WWII war criminal Hideki Tojo, would not be proven equally prescient until several decades after Georwell's untimely demise at the hands of a semi-sentient wheat thresher.
1884 was such an eventful year
i remember when we first discovered a planet made entirely out of candy, inhabited by edible intelligent life
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I know this isn't the point, but 7.5 hot dogs sounds SOOOOOO small. And what kind of respectable hot dog contest will give you credit for half a hot dog???
I once went to a place called "The Hot Dog Dinner". And they had a plaque on the wall that showed the last hot dog eating champion.
He ate 18 hot dogs, and I thought "I bet I could beat that". So I asked the owner what I'd get if I could eat 19 hot dogs.
And he said "A bill for 19 hot dogs".
So I didn't do it. But if I felt I could go 19 hot dogs, SURELY 7.5 would be childs play!
But is that part of your point? To make it obviously false, and obviously AI? Like a 3 year old trying to lie.
Hot dogs are an insidious foodstuff. You think to yourself "Surely, I have eaten several of these in one sitting casually. If I apply myself, I could eat double or triple the amount!", but in thinking that you have already fallen for their trap.
And so you eat your usual amount with relative ease, but the restaurant dogs are not like the ones you make at home, so they are more filling, but you press on and you eat another, and then another.
Suddenly, you can feel the weight of all of your mistakes in life culminating in that very moment, and you realize that you are nearly full and nowhere close to the measly goal you set for yourself, let alone the minimum amount of hot dogs you are required to consume in order for them to be considered an achievement.
But your pride demands that you continue, despite the loud protests of your body.
Eventually, you tap out, burdened with the shame of knowing exactly how many hot dogs you can eat in one sitting, and also knowing that it was nowhere near what you or anyone else expected you to be able to eat. The infernal sausages have beaten you.
I love that the enthusiastic tone of your comment was completely unaffected by the bland apathy of the diner owner's quote.
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Damn he really ate 7.5 hotdogs huh
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