I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.
IQ levels are same as before, it's just easier to spot differences.
Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
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Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
#32This is our new normal. It's not necessarily interesting. But you have to expect nearly everyone is using AI at this point.
It is actually darkly fascinating how eager so many people are about racing towards NPCdom.
Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
#33Many comments pointing out this is part of the response rather than the prompt.
But the whole speech is the response. What do you call the bits at the start "Certainly, I can write a speech in this style" type thing, and at the end "Would you like to learn more about political speech writing?"
Perhaps something like "AI tells" but perhaps there's already an industry term.
Edit: hadn't watched the video, this is the former "response to prompt" type tell.
Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
#34To be technical, what he read wasn't prompt, it's part of the AI's response to the prompt. But yes, it's a giant tell that politician used AI to write his speech, and he didn't thoroughly edit the response when preparing the final draft.
No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful). The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.) One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence should be in proportion to the gravity.
> "bro there's no way he's gonna read this"
< "cmon do it bro it'll be so funny"
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#35I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.
IQ levels are same as before, it's just easier to spot differences.
Oddly, getting spotted for being dumb might be intelligent.
As I click another AI generated ad to tell which company could possibly have so little integrity…
Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
#36That is the video title, but I think it should be paraphrased here to be more correct given our highly technical audience. The politician is actually reading an unedited AI response, which includes "editors notes" or maybe you could call it meta-content.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful). The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.) One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence should be in proportion to the gravity.
> "bro there's no way he's gonna read this" < "cmon do it bro it'll be so funny"
"Don't attribute to malevolence what can be adequately explained by large amounts of stupidity."
Hanlon's Razor
Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
#38Why exactly is that bad?
You're absolutely right. Sure, I'll help you write a Hacker News comment explaining why politicians should have functional mental faculties and a coherent understanding of what they do during the course of their jobs and how their actions affect their constituents.
None of that requires you to be a good public speaker or speech writer
Re: Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful). The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.) One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence should be in proportion to the gravity.
There's a lot to unpack here. > that politician trusted some poorly paid staff - I assume that politician is the one / main person in charge of doling out payments. Does that mean they share guilt/responsibility for the result? > to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful). - Is procedure not his job as a politician? - If not, what is his job / the more useful thing? > One…
Of course they share responsibility. Pay scraps for slop, expect slop.
The more useful job of a politician may be similar to how managers in general have a "more useful" part of their jobs then publishing status report.
"Gathering information, making decisions, nudging others." Lobbying for their constituency (at best) or the people who paid for his campaign (at worse).
Or, heavens forbid, writing legislation on a topic that he knows something about, as opposed to whatever crap he had to slop about.
As I said, responsibility has to be shared. I would want neither the staff to be considered the sole problems, nor the polician career to be permanently halted because of this. (I know he's going to look stupid on the internet, and we'll all have a good laugh, but maybe he's also working on some serious stuff, and real people are going to pay real consequences because of what is, in the grand scheme of things, a minor blunder.
I'm more concerned about students not caring to learn to read because of AI.
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#40I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.
IQ levels are same as before, it's just easier to spot differences.
IQ levels have decreased in the 21st century, it's known as the reverse Flynn effect, Norway did a large scale study on almost a million people because they have a lot of military data and accounting for genetics IQ peaked for people roughly born in the late 70s and has been declining since. We've actually wiped out a fair amount of 20th century gains in intelligence.