thomasfuchs,
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

I occasionally check if Google has cured itself from AI-brain rot, alas this is a screenshot from just now

aer,
@aer@freeradical.zone avatar

@thomasfuchs

Fortunately the model is always learning

jamwil,
@jamwil@fosstodon.org avatar

@aer @thomasfuchs This post is fake.

aer,
@aer@freeradical.zone avatar
tomwinzig,
@tomwinzig@mastodon.social avatar

@jamwil @aer @thomasfuchs it’s not fake, he’s just using the old 3.5 model

LordCaramac,
@LordCaramac@discordian.social avatar

@thomasfuchs Call me old fashioned, but I don't want a machine that answers question, I want a search engine that leads me to interesting websites. Something that doesn't try to figure out what I might need and just gives me something that fits the search pattern I enter.

thomasfuchs,
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

@LordCaramac Luddite!

guihn288,

@thomasfuchs LMAO, it's the fake information duo.

thomasfuchs,
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

@guihn288 wtf

oyla,

@thomasfuchs I wanted to know what African country that’s not part of The African Union. It’s just a fake news generator at this point.

titociuro,
@titociuro@mstdn.social avatar

@thomasfuchs I wonder how much did this hallucination cost, in terms of money and energy. Cannot be trivial…

sigue,

@thomasfuchs

To be fair to Google (why? I dunno? I work there, but I totally agree they have AI brain rot) this search result is just the content of an Emergent Mind web page which is itself reporting a ChatGPT result: https://www.emergentmind.com/posts/did-you-know-that-there-is-no-country-in-africa-that

You can see "Emergent Mind" in the screenshot.

(Sorry if I'm repeating someone but there are too many comments to read them all.)

acm_redfox,
@acm_redfox@jawns.club avatar

@thomasfuchs "spelled with a K sound" is awesome!

woo,

@thomasfuchs What's really fun is that the UK 'government' has announced today that asylum claims are to be assessed by AI, and that can be a matter of life or death. They also broke encryption.

wootube,

@thomasfuchs Of course, if that was translated from one of the African 'click' languages, it may have once made perfect sense. It's a model of languages, not of reality. They don't always make sense.

andrewfeeney,
@andrewfeeney@phpc.social avatar

@thomasfuchs How do you spell a K sound?

number137,
@number137@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs it is widely known, that irish singer-songwriterin Enya took her stage name from the African contry

stew_sims,
@stew_sims@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs wow, we should all keep posting the garbage like this that comes out of AI systems. I must admit I didn't realise the rot was so ingrained, thanks for the reminder. Surely with it being this crap the AI bubble is about to burst (again)?

madies,
@madies@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs Unless you trust auto-complete to handle your correspondance, you shouldn't trust AI bots to handle your knowledge gathering.

winfried,
@winfried@fosstodon.org avatar

@thomasfuchs you were looking for exactly this false information, admit it. And Google delivered, what's wrong with that? ;)

jaiecoute,

@thomasfuchs i'm a blank page. Write trivia like this on my mind pls

tessarakt,
@tessarakt@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs Maybe Krantzberg Syndrome from brain parasites?

jlroberson,
@jlroberson@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs I asked ChatGPT why there are no African nations beginning with K to see what it did and well, it's half right but

ethanrdoesmc,
@ethanrdoesmc@hachyderm.io avatar

@thomasfuchs honestly is this not the Streisand effect in action

Emmadrime,
@Emmadrime@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs 😐

I hate this timeline.

johnjhayes,
@johnjhayes@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs that answer got ranked high because lots of people were pointing at it and laughing. The website that answers is from is showing a chatgpt response. It's a weakness of Google, for sure, but nothing to do with AI. Humans will always need to look at contextual clues and not blindly believe ... well, anything.

atkelar,

@thomasfuchs hmmm... Must be one of those weird unicode 'K' style symbols then... 🤔🤪

vitriolix,
@vitriolix@mastodon.social avatar

@thomasfuchs I too enjoy new trivia facts

stevenray,
@stevenray@sfba.social avatar
lizbrowne,
@lizbrowne@mstdn.ca avatar

@thomasfuchs

I asked Bing the same question. Its AI response gave me Kenya, but also Kosovo.

bryanhansel,
@bryanhansel@mstdn.social avatar

@thomasfuchs and not a single Enya mention in the comments. Come on, Mastodon!

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