But what happens when the fact checker becomes the drug?!
You mean like a sleeping pill?
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things moving fast in AI land.
that video one that popped up today seems to be quite clever.
i expect a lot of āweirdā looking stylized videos
Considering /pol pushing this Iām not particularly excited by whatever theyāre excited to āunlockā.
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What do you mean? Couldnt understand your response.
Edit: I think I understand. You meant āpeopleā.
Look irrespective of their viewpoints, I doubt any balanced person would want AI that is not neutral or unbiased and continually patched to suit the developers own viewpoints.
Itās not a great place to start from and Iām sure people from with all sorts of views will be trying to keep it in check.
The tweet specified that this is being pushed hard by 4chanās ā/polā for the usual partisan culture war fuckery.
lol
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Irrespective of their views, it doesnt mean that what the developers are doing is rightā¦
You donāt want neutral is that what you are saying?
You donāt want apposing views given in response rather than an AI that decides based upon the developers leaningsā¦ little sad if thats the case.
Itās a chatbot and neither will it improve society, nor are the specific critics looking to improve society somehow by removing whatever guiderails keep them from generating holocaust fanfic for the lulz.
Itās a corporate product by design, I donāt give any fucks about the monetary value anyoneās trying to extract from it to rule us, nor am I going to back anyone who removes guardrails because they want whatever political influence they hope to extract from it.
Weād be fine without any of that, this isnāt a win for civil libertarians or people who donāt want to be ruled, just more partisan reactionary shitposting.
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Possibly they arenāt looking to improve society. That doesnt mean Iāll gloss over the technical details of what they are exposing.
Some people will look at it as a chatbot. Others sadly as an oracle.
The thing with bias on ChatGPT or anywhere else, if people donāt agree with it, they wonāt have their mind changed, ie the āOrange man badā crew arenāt going to change to āLetās go Brandonā crew or vice versa.
Easier to be in both those crewsā¦
Itās true, however there is clearly a corporate leaning towards one side and so then when Microsoft (who are invested in it) push for it to be part of the every day work that companies and employees use then itās going to sway people on a multitude of issues ever increasing corporate power over society.
Another propaganda tool.
Or neither.
The posturing around āfreeing AIā is really the silly thing.
Theyāre not the EFF, just the usual Twitter narcissists seeking clout.
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I agree. But I also think AI should be unbiased as far as possible.
I wasnt even paying attention to whatever bravado those folks were getting/not getting.
The fact is that they were able to do something that gave a new insight into the tool.
Purely observing and considering the implications.
Corporate only leans to one side: capital. Whatever you perceive to be the ideology of certain mega corps is actually branding.
Itās funny how the right seems to have convinced most of the world that āwokenessā comes from the left when itās actually a neoliberal ideology. The ārealā left(which sadly barely exists today) is highly critical of woke ideology(but obviously sympathetic to causes such as anti-racism, for lgbtq+ rights and so on).
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That is my biggest worry. Iām not worried about the technology itself but about a big market-player eating up a small business with some revolutionary impact.
It is the big players doing their thing. A day or so after Microsoft announced their AI interface with Bing, Google comes right back with the announcement with their own product Bard.
Groupthink ?
Reference on who announced first :
Microsoft Announcement from February 7th
Forbes article about Google Bard Announcement made February 8th
What Google announced on February 6th was that they would announce Bard on February 8th in Paris.
See this from Engadget.
So when the NYT, and NPR say MS announced first, they are correct, but there is an asterisk.
Leaning to one side of what giant corps promote / fund ideologically, not what they practise or desire for themselves (Similar to like those jet-setting elites who take private jets and helicopters to Davos yet want to make the average person restricted by their carbon footprint).
My take is there is a leaning from giant corps towards using woke ideology in order to further their own prosperity, working hand in glove with governments to exert societal control & influence.
ESG/Blackrock as one example. When you look at what Blackrock have attempted to drive through akin to corporate social credit scoringā¦ soon to be exerted on individuals.
Google were first actually, which suggests ā¦ they had inside info about MS pending announcement?
Bah, anyway ā¦ itās a fun time, this seems like the generational change us 80s kids thought we might be immune from because āwe grew up with computersā.
Hmm.
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