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by Edd314159 1047 days ago
You're absolutely right, but the article we're talking about misses the point.

It focusses on the sensational-sounding part of this, the implication that people will blindly take these recipes and make them and eat them and then die. Clearly that is not going to be the outcome here.

But if you peel away the (false) angle that exists just for clicks on the article, there is a real story here. One that we all already know and understand, especially as technologists, but is worth talking about anyway because it's interesting:

It's that these "AI" products (the LLMs they're based on) _cannot reason like a human with common sense can_. They're not even close. That doesn't mean they're not amazing technology, but now that the technology has been applied to products, that limitation becomes more obvious.

It's kind of a boring aspect of AI to talk about, particularly compared to "AI creates recipes that will kill you!!!". But it's really the root of this story, and it's not nothing.

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> Clearly that is not going to be the outcome here.

Clearly not. E.g. Tell that to the people that drove off-street because they trusted their navigation system more than their eyes. Tell that to the people that drank chlorine against covid.

That the recipes are unusable or dangerous is one thing, but believing as a company that noone will misuse your system is something we should know by now that it's totally wrong.