*where you think they sourced from there, you have no proof other than seeing ghosts everywhere.
Not get me wrong, fact checking posts is important, but you have no evidence if it is AI, human brain fart or targeted disinformations 🤷🏻♀️
Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The bigger problem is AI “ignorance,” and it’s not just Facebook. I’ve reported more than one Lemmy post the user naively sourced from ChatGPT or Gemini and took as fact.
No one freaking understands how LLMs work. Can’t blame them, seeing how they’re shoved down everyone’s throats as opaque products, or straight up social experiments like Facebook.
Petter1@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No I mean they literally label the post as “Gemini said this”
Petter1@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I see no problem if the poster gives the info, that the source is AI. This automatically devalues the content of the post/comment and should trigger the reaction that this information is to be taken with a grain of salt and it needs to factchecked in order to improve likelihood that that what was written is fact.
An AI output is most of the time a good indicator about what the truth is, and can give new talking points to a discussion. But it is of course not a “killer-argument”.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The context is bad though.
The post I’’ referencing is removed, but there was a tiny “from gemini” footnote in the bottom that most upvoters clearly missed, and the whole thing is presented like a quote from a news article and taken as fact by OP in their own commentary.
And the larger point I’m making is this pour soul had no idea Gemini is basically an improv actor compelled to continue whatever it writes, not a research agent.
My sister, ridiculously smart and more put together, didn’t either. She just searched for factual stuff from the Gemini app and assumed it’s directly searching the internet.
AI is a good thinker, analyzer, spitballer, initial source and stuff yes, but it’s being marketed like an oracle and that is going to screw the world up.
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well that’s just false.
Traister101@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Educate my family on how they work then please and thanks. I’ve tried and they refuse to listen, they’d prefer to trust the lying corpos trying to sell it to us
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Your family” isn’t who I was talking about. Researchers and people in the space understand how LLMs work in intricate detail.
Unless your “no one” was colloquial, then yes, I totally agree with you! Practically no one understands how they work.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
colloquially, no one enjoys a pedant
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You know what I meant, by no one I mean “a large majority of users.”
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I did not know that. There’s a bunch of news articles going around claiming that even the creators of the models don’t understand them and that they are some sort of unfathomable magic black box. I assumed you were propagating that myth, but I was clearly mistaken.