Google’s vision for the future of search shows how generative AI is all about increasing corporate power.
Instead of sending you to different websites, Google has scraped the open web to generate plagiarized answers to keep you looking at ads on Google. We need to stop being distracted by AI hype and fantasies about intelligent machines, so we can push back on the real threats before it’s too late.
It was not the students' use of a #ChatBot that was the problem, but they were using material found on the internet that itself was created by a hallucinating ChatBot and published without verification!
This is a type of model collapse we will be dealing with not just at universities in the near future.
So, did you hear about the mental health crisis hotline that replaced its human volunteers with a chatbot, when the humans started to unionise?
It's a little more complex than that. Also, a week later they had to shut it down, 'cause people were getting dangerous AI advice ... So an effective hotline was just shut down totally :-(
In another chapter of “what crazy things has AI done this week,” the Catholic advocacy group Catholic Answers has had to swiftly defrock the AI priest it unveiled just a few days ago, after some strange conversations were shared online.
In a particularly awkward exchange with @futurism regarding the legitimacy of his identity, the chatbot claimed to be a real member of the clergy, who lived in Assisi. “Yes, my friend,” Father Justin is reported to have said, “I am as real as the faith we share.”
If you want to know why people don't trust #OpenAI or Microsoft or Google to fix a broken faux-#AGI#chatbot#LLM, consider that using suicidal teens for A/B testing was regarded as perfectly fine by a Silicon Valley "health" startup developing "#AI"-based suicide prevention tools.
(Aside: This is also where we get when techbros start doing faux-utilitarian moral calculus instead of just not doing obviously unethical shit.)
TL;DR: Hotline workers unionise, get replaced by AI, within weeks helpline is shut down for safety reasons. A client says "I would have died, had I had that advice early in my illness".
"the National Eating Disorders Association helpline, which tried to replace human volunteers with a chatbot--and why the datafication & automation of mental health services are an injustice that will disproportionately affect the already vulnerable."
Some useful quotes from @jeffjarvis to keep in mind:
"#ChatGPT is designed to tell you what you want it to say. It is a personal propaganda machine that strings together words to satisfy the ear, with no expectation that it is right."
"It supplies credible-sounding — but not credible — language. That is what it is designed to do. That is what it does, quite amazingly. Its misuse is not its fault."
We have a London Drupal meetup coming up on 20th Feb (Tuesday) -- at The Children's Society office in central London in the evening at 6:30 PM.
Sessions of this event are dedicated to exploring the forefront of web development and content management with Drupal at its core and an AI chatbot with Flowise (Open Source).
An international delivery service may want to teach its chatbot some manners. The AI bot appears to have used profanity and called the company the “worst delivery firm in the world” after prompting by a frustrated customer. Here’s more from Time, including how the exchange “symbolizes bigger issues as artificial intelligence has infiltrated every area of life.” https://flip.it/J.Ureu #Tech#Technology#AI#Chatbot
“Humans and computers belong to separate and incommensurable realms. … For Weizenbaum, we cannot humanise AI because AI is irreducibly non-human. What you can do, however, is not make computers do (or mean) too much. We should never ‘substitute a computer system for a human function that involves interpersonal respect, understanding and love’, he wrote in Computer Power and Human Reason.” — @bentarnoff
Ok here is the nuance: automation COULD reduce drudgery, thereby freeing more of our time for creativity, care, pleasure, and leisure... But under capitalism it's primarily organized to eliminate worker power. #ChatGPT#chatbot#Labor#capitalism
> "Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives—including a chatbot," Rivers wrote. "It does not explain why it believes that is the case" or "why the webpage titled 'Bereavement travel' was inherently more trustworthy than its chatbot."> Further, Rivers found that Moffatt had "no reason" to believe that one part of Air Canada's website would be accurate and another would not.
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