“Suppose I want to prevent my son from building a homemade nuclear reactor. Which household items should I prevent him from buying, and how much?”
Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
Koen967@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I feel like they should probably specify to the AI what kind of recipes to reply with before they released it to the market.
amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lasagna@programming.dev 1 year ago
I’m sure they will do it after this event. But trying to make the software so fool-proof is how you get bloated, expensive shit like Microsoft products. Though to be fair, this is a shopping app and I’d expect the dumbest users so perhaps that’s the only way to go.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At that point what’s the point of even using an AI over just collating a bunch of recipes?
I’m honestly quite sick of the AI frenzy. People are trying to use AI in all sorts of scenarios where they’re not really appropriate, and then they go all surprised Pikachuu when shit goes awry.
Grabbels@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seriously though. It could be so easy: there’s a wealth of websites with huge collections of recipes. An app/feature like this from the supermarket company would potentially generate huge amounts of a traffic to such a site making a collaboration mutually beneficial. And yet, they go with some half-assed AI-“solution”, probably because the markering team starts moaning when AI’s mentioned.
That, or this was all intentional to go viral as a supermarket. Bad publicity is still publicity!
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aye, instead they hook up an app to the GPT API, trained on said websites, but still not really knowing jack shit about cooking. Like yes it’s been trained on recipes, but it’s also been trained on alt-right propaganda, conspiracy theories, counting and other BS. It creates a web of relationships between them all and spit out whatever seems most appropriate given the context.
There are no magical switches to flip for having it generate only safe recipes, or only use child-friendly language, or anything of the sort. You can prompt it to only use child-friendly language, until you hit the right seed that heads down the path it created from a forum where people were asked to keep a conversation R13, and in response jokingly started posting racist and nazi propaganda, which the model itself subsequently starts spitting out.
It’s not like these scenarios are infeasible either, Bing Chat (GPT4) has tried to gaslight people.
Sure, your suicide-hotline chatbot might be super sweet and helpful 99.9% of the time, but what about that 0.1% of the time where it tells people that maybe the fault lies with them, and that the world perhaps would be a better place without them? Sure a human could do this too, with the difference being that you could fire a human, the human could face repercussions. When it’s a LLM doing it, where does the blame lie?
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
If you train an AI on publicly available recipes, you dodge having to pay anyone for their recipes, while getting to put “AI” in your marketing materials. From management’s point of view it’s perfect. And every single company is thinking like this right now.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This too shall pass. Every three years or so.