Comment on Google Gemini: Fascist AI for the plebs
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 month agoVery true, but the fact that it refuses to answer despite me already knowing it has enough info in its index to answer, shows that it has been programmed not to answer.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well, yeah. That’s what it said.
It’s trained by reading the horrible morass of stuff on the Internet. Topics with larger amounts of disinformation are areas where they’re very prone to making mistakes. Crossing those topics with ones that misinformation or the appearance of misinformation are particularly damaging to the world or to their reputation and you have a good list of topics that are probably not good candidates to let your chatbot talk about.
It doesn’t do “reasoning” or “critical thinking” in the way you might expect for something that can communicate articulately. It doesn’t know what’s accurate or not, only what’s likely to be stated on the Internet. Unfortunately, it’s very likely for people on the Internet to say some bonkers things about the 2020 election in specific, and anything political in general. Even in sources that normally might be ranked higher for factuality, like a news publication.
It’s not just trump, it’s anything political.
This type of AI isn’t an expert, it’s a mimic. It knows how to mimic patterns, and it’s been told to mimic something knowledgeable and helpful based on all the text on the Internet, where people regularly present themselves as knowledgeable regardless of their basic sanity.