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by nicklecompte 757 days ago
Jesus, that kidney stones one is bad :( It's funny when the LLM totally checks out of reality, but not at all funny when the statement seems plausible to ignorant people.

(A lot people seem to subscribe to an ideology of "dumb people get what they deserve." What this really means to me is "I have Dunning-Kruger syndrome," but I wonder how much of that gets filtered down into making excuses for AI that sucks so badly it becomes actively dangerous.)
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al_borland 757 days ago
If I already know the answer to something, why would I be looking it up? These answers from AI should assume the person on the other end doesn’t know anything and isn’t going to fact check. If they were going to fact check, they’d just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with AI.

To me, a real sign of intelligence and maturity is being able to say, “I don’t know.” I always lose a lot of respect for people when I catch them making up answers to questions they can’t answer. It means I can’t trust anything they say. If I’m not willing to accept this behavior from a person in my life, why would I accept it from a machine?

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naitgacem 757 days ago
> they'd just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with Al.

Keep in mind these come from the new "AI Overview" feature, which means these appear at the TOP of search results!

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datavirtue 757 days ago
If you have a question about the answer have the AI review it to make sure it's correct. I have gotten it to pull it's head out of its ass numerous times. It's like a conversation with a human.

It's easy to hold it wrong if you believe things you see in print.

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nicklecompte 757 days ago
This is just completely disconnected from my original comment. What if someone reads "drink fruit juice to clear up kidney stones" from an AI and doesn't have a question about the answer because they don't fully understand what kidney stones are? The only response AI advocates seem to have is "not my problem." Or, far too often, the vindictive irresponsibility of "it was his fault for being so stupid that he trusted us."
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al_borland 757 days ago
>"it was his fault for being so stupid that he trusted us."

It reminds me of a young Mark Zuckerberg, “they trust me. Dumb f*cks.”

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nicklecompte 757 days ago
I was thinking Animal House when I wrote it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oCpwd0ARx6Q&pp=ygUbYW5pbWFsIGhvd...

  "Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. You fucked up! You trusted us! Hey, make the best of it... maybe we can help you."
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JohnFen 757 days ago
> A lot people seem to subscribe to an ideology of "dumb people get what they deserve."

That's the mantra that allows far too many scammers to sleep at night.

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