A new experiment shows AI chatbots aren’t only good for spreading disinformation – but it comes with plenty of caveats.
    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I mean, Alex Jones has more skin in the grift than most conspiracy theorists, so he’s not likely to do a 180 quickly, if at all. Also, it seems like he’s been drunk more often on the latest episodes, so maybe he’s having an existential crisis started by being fact-checked in real time by a robot.

      We can’t know what his internal state is, but I do agree that it does not seem to have slowed his pace at all on the surface.

  • CondensedPossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Pretty funny to posit that a LLM chatbot ought to talk us out of conspiratorial thinking while running on a corporate GPU farm absolutely BLASTING through electricity and copyright and IP violations because it’s legally convenient for the powerful. Please post more thought provoking unreasonable propaganda.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Huh that’s funny, because I run a local LLM even on my laptop.

      And fuck yes, I love IP violations. Makes me want to go pirate some media and draw fan art.

      Please post some more ignorant rage.

      • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Its wild how some people’s blind hate of gen AI has got them thinking “corporate control of culture is good actually”

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I guess this is all part of the social sciences side of chatbots and something to keep an eye on, and folks have to start somewhere…but I kind of feel that the technology isn’t really at the point where teaching people in general with a chatbot is an ideal solution.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    AI is a conspiracy theory—companies are just hiring people in lower-income countries to impresonate machines!

    (/s, of course, but with just enough truth to it that there’s probably someone somewhere out there who thinks the above statement is plausible.)

  • nullboi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The amount of conspiracy theories I’ve heard in the past year or so involve AI in some way.

    Yesterday a friend and I were talking and he said the government was using AI to hack his brain.

    I don’t think a chat bot is going to help that situation.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the first time in a long time I’ve heard of a use case for AI that is genuinely useful

    It’s a job very few people will want to do, it can do the job as well as, if not better than a human, and it’s a use case that is genuinely useful.

    I wish them luck.