<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Our current media streams are about as bad imho. But I’m in this personal paradigm that computers are stupid, but AI scared the shit out of me. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 6, 2023, at 5:25 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">A few weeks back, Europol was warning on the use of LLMs in crime<br><br><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/europol-sounds-alarm-about-criminal-use-chatgpt-sees-grim-outlook-2023-03-27" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/technology/europol-sounds-alarm-about-criminal-use-chatgpt-sees-grim-outlook-2023-03-27</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then yesterday, the Washington Post had an article that is very concerning, <br></div><div>even scary, to say the least.</div><div><br></div><div>ChatGPT claimed that a certain law professor sexually harassed a student <br></div><div>on a class trip to Alaska, and cites a Washington Post article.</div><div>There was no such trip, and no such article. <br></div><div><br></div><div>And Bing/GPT-4 drew from the professor's defence against the false ChatGPT <br></div><div>claims to answer a similar question: so now we have an echo chamber</div><div>of bots! Like Social Media Bubbles, but worse ...</div><div><br></div><div>ChatGPT also claims that a mayor in Australia served jail time for bribery. <br></div><div><br></div><div>And it led a journalist to contact a certain university professor citing</div><div>an article she published, with dates. No such article exists ...</div><div><br></div><div>This is likely to ruin lives ... the end of the articles has quotes of examples. <br></div><div><br></div><div>And notably, a Princeton University computer science professor is quoted <br></div><div>saying what Doug Moen said all along: these LLMs are Bullshit Generators ...</div><br><a href="https://archive.is/lJj3c" target="_blank">https://archive.is/lJj3c</a><br><br></div>
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