Here's Google suggesting suicide!
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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I want a whole Lemmy subreddit ( community? ) of the AI overviews gone wild like this, it's funny af
You should make one. I'd sub immediately
I can't even reach that thing because I need a visa just to enter the country that has it.
My guy, Google pays Reddit $60 Million/year for this. $60Million.
I remember I once got told, years ago that I was stupid for saying "Data is the new Oil" and now look! Do you know what I could do if I had $60Million in my bank right now? And Google isn't the only one! Companies the world over are paying out the nose for user-generated content and business is booming! If I'm an oil well, it's time my oil came with a price tag. I was a Reddit user for YEARS! Almost since the beginning of Reddit! I made some of the training data that Google and others are using! Where's my cut of that $60M?
That picture will forever haunt me in my dreams.
Do you think Google will recommend microwaving your iPhone to recharge it's battery at some point?
I notice their AI answers are off for that question. I bet it was already a thing.
Yeah but that actually works tho
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Man, you really can’t beat homemade artisanal misinformation
There’s an old adage in computing which really applies here:
Garbage in, garbage out.
I want AI answers that end saying that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
I've used an LLM that provides references for most things it says, and it really ruined a lot of the magic when I saw the answer was basically copied verbatim from those sources with a little rewording to mash it together. I can't imagine trusting an LLM that doesn't do this now.
Which one?!
Kagi's FastGPT. It's handy for quick answers to questions I'd normally punch in a search engine with the same ability to vet the sources.
I'd hate to defend an llm, but Kagi FastGPT explicitly works by rewording search sources through an llm. It's not actually a stand alone llm, that's why it's able to cite it's sources.
They also highlight the fact that Google’s AI is not a magical fountain of new knowledge, it is reassembled content from things humans posted in the past indiscriminately scraped from the internet and (sometimes) remixed to look like something plausibly new and “intelligent.”
This. "AI" isn't coming up with new information on its own. The current state of "AI" is a drooling moron, plagiarizing any random scrap of information it sees in a desperate attempt to seem smart. The people promoting AI are scammers.
I once said that the current "AI" is just a excel spread sheet with a few billion rows, from what all of the answer gets interpolated from...
oh gods what happens when the ai discovers the poop knife
Or the cumbox. Or that kid who broke his arms. Or that dog, Colby I think? No wonder AI always wants to exterminate humanity in sci-fi.
Hey Google, I like space movies. Please describe the Swamps of Dagobah.
I do recall crying laughing while reading the comments in the broken arms kid thread
I thought it was hilarious how redditors fell for some guys bait/fetish post. Iirc the guy admitted to making it all up in some dm’s
So, basically shitposting poisons AI training. Good to know 👍
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Edit: oh hey, this posted 3 times lol that's a new one. Sorry for the spam there
Is this real though? Does ChatGPT just literally take whole snippets of texts like that? I thought it used some aggregate or probability based on the whole corpus of text it was trained on.
This is not the model directly but the model looking through Google searches to give you an answer.
It does, but the thing with the probability is that it doesn't always pick the most likely next bit of text, it basically rolls dice and picks maybe the second or third or in rare cases hundredth most likely continuation. This chaotic behaviour is part of what makes it feel "intelligent" and why it's possible to reroll responses to the same prompt.
I've been trying out SearX and I'm really starting to like it. It reminds me of early Internet search results before Google started added crap to theirs. There's currently 82 Instances to choose from, here
it literally just proxies/aggregates google/bing search results tho?
So does pretty much every search engine. Running your own web crawler requires a staggering amount of resources.
Mojeek is one you can check out if that's what you're looking for, but it's index is noticeably constrained compared to other search engines. They just don't have the compute power or bandwidth to maintain an up to date index of the entire web.
we're working on it 😉 slow and steady and all that; we also fixed a bug with recrawl recently that should be improving things