Generative AI could make search harder to trust
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Re: Generative AI could make search harder to trust
#2Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech?
There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles they are putting out at this point read like bitter diatribes. Which is a shame because they used to be an excellent publication.
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#3Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech? There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles they are putting out at this point read like bitter diatribes. Which is a shame because they used to be an excellent publication.
Putting journalists out of work I guess?
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#4Recently an article came out where someone said that the company I work for is a big user of WebAssembly, but the reality is that we don't use it.
After finding the contributed article (on a well-known news site, not Wired though), it looks like a tech founder might've been using ChatGPT to write an article about the uses for WASM. The arguments were generally sound, but I don't think that anyone did the work to manually check any of the facts they presented in it.
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#5AI powered citogenesis!
I'm starting to wish articles had inline citations as a standard.
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#6Just another reason that I consider generative AI to be a lot like crypto. A lot of talk about it being the future but really only turns out to be dangerous or useless. I find it incredibly irresponsible that companies are shoving their latest AI tech into all their products when it's still unproven.
Re: Generative AI could make search harder to trust
#7Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech? There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles they are putting out at this point read like bitter diatribes. Which is a shame because they used to be an excellent publication.
People are generally more cognizant of the harms caused by the tech industry than they were even a few years ago.
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#8We did it guys! We're definitely heading into a new era, one perfected by software engineers. I can't wait!
Re: Generative AI could make search harder to trust
#9Leaving aside the article to discuss the source for a moment. When did Wired become so antitech? There are good critical viewpoints but most of the articles they are putting out at this point read like bitter diatribes. Which is a shame because they used to be an excellent publication.
People are generally more cognizant of the harms caused by the tech industry than they were even a few years ago.
This.
The academic internet of the 90s is so far gone and while we're seeing a lot of magic lately, it's magic available to literally everybody for any and every purpose.
We're rapidly seeing how boring and disappointing that is :(
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#10More amusing and frightening is when people search about themselves
and turn up AI generated crap. Googling yourself was always a lucky
grab bag, with the possibility of long-forgotten embarrassments being
dragged up. But at least you'd have to face facts.
Now I hear of people discovering they're in prison, married to random people they've never met, or are actually already dead.
What is this going to do to recon on individuals (for example by employers, border agents or potential romantic partners) when there's a good chance the reputation raffle will report you as a serial rapist, kiddy-fiddler or Tory politician?