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You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)

Well, according to an interview at The Vergewith Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these "hallucinations" are an "inherent feature" of  AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem."

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 82 points 6 months ago

Since when has feeding us misinformation been a problem for capitalist parasites like Pichai?

Misinformation is literally the first line of defense for them.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

AI isn't giving the right misinformation

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Well, we can't have that, can we?

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

"put glue in your tomato sauce."

"Omg you ate a capitalist parasite spreading misinformation intentionally!"

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

“put glue in your tomato sauce.”

Doesn't sound all that different from the stuff emanating from the right's Great Orange Hope a while back that worked pretty well to keep his base appropriately frothing at the mouth - you are free to write it off as pure coincidence... but I won't just yet.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Can you come up with any rational explanation as to why they would do that?

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

The part where it's not "pure coincidence" but instead a deliberate part of some conspiracy.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

but instead a deliberate part of some conspiracy.

You mean... apart from the bog-standard propaganda regime the capitalist class has been enforcing on us long before either of us were born?

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, besides that. Specifically why this. Thanks.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I'd say it's a continuation of the exact same thing - they just don't know how to properly use their latest toy yet.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

At this point, considering your vague non-answers, my only choice is to interpret your answer to my question as "no, I can't."

Take care.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

vague non-answers

Absolutely no "vague non-answers" on my part. If you don't understand how propaganda works, it's on you to say so - not me.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

LLMs trained on shitposting are too obvious for it to be quality misinformation.

For quality disinformation they should train them solely on MBA course-work and documents produced by people with MBAs.

Sure, the rate of false information would be even worse, but it would be formatted in slick ways meant to obfuscate meaning, which would avoid the kind of hilarity that has ensued when Google deployed an LLM trained on Reddit data and thus be much better for Google's stock price.

this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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