Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder

• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure but if that becomes the norm then a huge segment of the population will believe the first thing the bot tells them. You might be okay, but we’re talking about an entire society filtering its knowledge through an incredibly effective misinformation engine that will lie rather than say “I don’t know”, because that simple phrase shows a level of self-awareness that eludes a lot of actual people, much less a chatbot.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s already a problem. The thing j think about is what will serve me better. Google or chat AI. The risk of bad information exists with both. But an AI based search engine is something that will be much better at finding context, retiring results geared towards my goals and I suspect less prone to fuckery because AI must be trained as a whole

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except we already know that AI lies and people in general are not aware of this. Children are using these. When you as a person have to sift through results you get a sense of what information is out there, how sparse it is, etc. When an AI word-vomits the first thing it can think of to satisfy your answer, you get none of that, and perhaps you should be aware of that yourself. You don’t really seem to be, it’s like you think the saved time is more important than context, which apparently I have to remind you - the bot doesn’t know context.

      When you say:

      an AI based search engine is something that will be much better at finding context

      It makes me think that you really don’t understand how these bots work, and that’s the real danger.

      We’re talking in this thread about this wider systemic issue, not just what suits you personally regardless of how much it gaslights you, but if that’s all you care about then you do you I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lie is a weird way to describe it. They hallucinate answers which is give you an answer they based on probabilities. Its not lying its just lacking in data to give an accurate and correct a answer which will get better with more training and data. Everything else we have so far gets worse. Google isn’t what it was 15 years ago.

        I use chatgpt every day to find out answers over google. Its better in almost every single way to get information from and I can only imagine what it’s capable of once it can interface with crawlers.

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