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I give you… “The Grant Money Printing machine!”
Need a grant? Create a disease and submit a paper. Then write a grant asking for money to solve your invented disease.
If you want research grants there is already a glitch for that. You just jam “AI” in your research and suddenly government cares about progress now.
Wait until you hear about paper mills… They were here long before LLMs. This can only get worse… Unless, “we” do something. Or journals themselves do it. Not sure what or how, but better audited ways. Even academia itself could start by valuing more the work of reviewers.
So like a University?
Before anyone shits on these scientists it said over and over again it was made up and that officially the USS Enterprise labs were used to make this discovery.
Good. This shows plainly how LLMs don’t think, don’t truly understand anything, and have no critical ability to do introspection or fact-checking. It seems the only way to teach the world of these things is to make it impossible to ignore via absurd demonstrations like this. If the “AI” well must be poisoned in order to wake people up, I’m all for it.
Isnt 80% of its data from Reddit anyways, seems quite poisoned already given the amount of confidently incorrect people.
With how Reddit is monetizing itself now I’d assume Lemmy actually becomes more widely used than Reddit however, since it should be totally free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally_misleading_chocolate_study
We did the same before AI. AI is once again just putting an old problem on steroids.
they do the same to protect doctors from malpractice lawsuits. there is a (laughably peer reviewed) study that claims tylenol and morphine are equally effective at pain management.
under the pseudonym Johannes Bohannon, John Bohannon …
I can see why he went into science and not, say, creative writing.
That’s all it can do.
I wonder if we got a group together to go on reddit and stack overflow and give really wrong programming answers and vote them to the top, if Claude would start sucking? They could always just revert to a previous model and it would probably be too hard to get enough people and content to have an effect with such large training sets. Maybe if you use ai? Lol
Didnn’t something similar happen to Grok but ended up with it generating a ton of CSAM material that circulated twitter?
chain tea, coffee coffee, cream cream.
Woo, woo, chugga, chugga, choo, choo
AI’s dont know that birds arent real, or that sometimes the pressure from being under water for an extended period of time can cause fish to explode.
My friends and I did that in high school. Kinda. We made up new words for “awesome” to get people to start saying it. We started with “bumpenis” like that song is bumpenis. Really we were just getting people to say bum penis. It worked too. We are all just walking talking LLMs.
That’s so fetch!
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
Pussy on the chainwax.
But, it IS fetch!
It’s streets ahead.
Did someone say fetch???
Over my fetch body
Wouldn’t humans do the same thing if someone literally writes lies on the internet?
Absolutely! Once false information is out there it can’t be retracted even if the article itself is retracted. Bumblebees can’t fly and vaccines cause autism are good examples of that. The only difference i can imagine is that LLMs have a much larger reach and may spread shit faster
But the Lancet did not retract the Wakefield paper for 12 years. The Lancet should have been shut down for that.
This. Here’s a comparable case where human journalists did exactly what LLMs are doing now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally_misleading_chocolate_study
The difference is the scale.
wym bumblebees can’t fly I’ve seen them myself
There was a publication, maybe in german, not sure, which stated that bumblebee can’t fly due to their aerodynamics which i think assumed that a bumblebee was a fixed wing aircraft, which it obviously isn’t. Or maybe it was a hoax to proof that hoaxes spead and can’t be retracted. Not sure. I think it’s quite old actually, dating back to the 1920s or 30s.
I don’t have a source but I’ve always heard it as “according to everything we know about aerodynamics bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly but they do anyway.” People use it as motivation, or to justify ignoring proven science.
(Edited to fix swype errors)
“When the text looks professional and written as a doctor writes, there’s an increase in the hallucination rates,” says Omar.
Huh, now there’s something we have in common. Trying to make sense of something a doctor wrote makes me feel like I’m hallucinating, too. Is there a class in medical school on “Illegible Handwriting,” or is it just a coincidence?
In all seriousness though, I wish I could be surprised by AI failing at this. We have entered the Misinformation Age. There’s no closing Pandora’s Box, though this time I can’t find the “hope” that’s supposed to be in the bottom of it. Society would have to turn real skeptical real fast, but I’ve met enough people to know that such a tranformation is going to take time - and by “time” I mean “decades or longer.” With AI already here, we’d have to wise up immediately… but I fear that humanity isn’t mature enough for that yet.
Wait, so breaks containment means spreads misinformation? What timeline is this?
It’s a screenshot of a post on bsky. Don’t read too much into the specifics of the language…
Technology is healing 😌
I imagine this is how it’ll work for stage 2 of Ai enshittifation. They’ll just add a bunch of garbage upstream about a brand or product marketers are paying to push and it’ll infect a bunch of outputs downstream.
tbh I don’t get how it’s output isn’t already filled with brand names
So let me tell yoy all about this paper talking about vaccines and autism. It’ll change the world
My first thought as well. Artificial intelligence is not better or worse than human stupidity. At least I haven’t seen any LLM trying to convince me the earth is flat (yet).
Not to you, although I would bet it has done so to someone. The main issue is though, if you asked an LLM to write arguments for a flat earth, it would do so. Convincingly and insistent, without even questioning or critically analyzing why. Ask it to compare and balance arguments both ways. And it will do so as if both positions were equally real and valid.
It has no notion of reality and no convictions of its own.
It will also hallucinate fake papers and quote people that don’t exists to make its argument.
PS: most poignantly, the point of the paper is that it says, over and over, “this information is false, this disease doesnt exist. All of this is made up”. Unlike the other problematic papers quoted on this comment thread that were published with conviction by the authors, and later were retracted. Yet the LLM is unable to parse that tidbit of information. It is not as smart as the most stupid. It simply is not intelligent, not even as intelligent as the most stupid humans. You can tell it, the following sentence is false, and it is not smart enough to pick up on that meaning.
So, same as (some) people.
See the difference between “some people” and ALL of LLMs.
Where do you get all LLMs from?
ask the ai about a blue waffle
do it again
