Comment

Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt

It’s odd that someone would be like “I espouse all these awful, awful ideas about the world. Not because I believe them, but because other people don’t like them.”

And then build this bot, to try to embody all of that simultaneously. Like, these are all right-wing ideas but there isn’t a majority of wingnuts that believe ALL OF THEM AT ONCE. Many people are anti-abortion but can see with their plain eyes that climate change is real, or maybe they are racist but not holocaust deniers.

But here comes someone who wants a bot to say “all of these things are true at once”.

source

Sort:hotnew top

deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Gab is for the friendiest of the right wing. And people often cluster disparate ideas together if they’re all considered to be markers of membership within their “tribe”.

Leftists, or at least those on the left wing of liberalism, tend to do this as well, particularly on social and cultural issues.

I think part of it is also a matter of not so much what people believe as what they will tolerate. The vaccine skeptic isn’t going to tolerate an AI bot that tells him vaccines work, but maybe generally oblivious to the Holocaust and thus really not notice or care if and when an AI bot misleads on it. Meanwhile a Holocaust denier might be indifferent about vaccines, but his Holocaust denialism serves as a key pillar of an overall bigoted worldview that he is unwilling to have challenged by an AI bot.

source
- melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  leftists do this too
  
  So you’ve never met anyone left of Ronald Reagan.
  
  source
  - John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Apparently you ain’t, either
    
    source
- Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Leftists, or at least those on the left wing of liberalism, tend to do this as well, particularly on social and cultural issues.
  
  Wtf
  
  source
  - Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Have you seen lemmy.ml?
    
    I have literally been banned for simply stating that Russia shot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine.
    
    source
    deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They’ll tolerate arguments over precise economic policies that amount to discussing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, but hold far tighter to what amount to cultural arguments. “USA bad” means “Russia good” because Russia is against USA so if Russia does bad then it’s good actually or else no it didn’t happen.
    
    source
- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  slatestarcodex.com/…/i-can-tolerate-anything-exce…
  
  source
  - DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I enjoyed reading it for the most part but couldn’t get through it all. Thanks for the link.
    
    source
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s a side effect of first-past-the-post politics causing political bundling.

If you want people with your ideas in power then you need to also accept all the rest of the bullshit under the tent.

Or expel them out of your already small coalition and become even weaker.

source
Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean you live in a world where people paid hundreds of dollars for Trump NFTs. You see the world in vivid intellectual color. These people cannot even color within the lines.

source