AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
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AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
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Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#2And now that Elon is in charge of "fixing" grok every time it's too "woke" this is probably going to get worse: https://x.com/kvistp/status/1967115650276749439
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#3This isn’t surprising to me at all. These services put too much trust in “the most common answer” when that might not be the correct answer. Just because people think one thing doesn’t make it true. It’s super easy to spread misinformation online. And if you can SEO to the top, the AI will think your site is correct.
I see factually incorrect “ai summaries” in search results all the time and see that it cites ai-generated slop blogposts that SEO-hacked themselves into taking up the entire first page of search results. This is most common for recent stuff where the answer simply isn’t certain but these AI services will assert something random with confidence.
Not even for news stuff specifically, I’ve been searching about a new video game that I’ve been playing and keep getting misleading obviously incorrect information. Detailed, accurate game walkthroughs and wiki pages dont exist yet so the ai will hallucinate anything, and so will the blogspam articles trying to get SEO ad revenue.
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#4And now that Elon is in charge of "fixing" grok every time it's too "woke" this is probably going to get worse: https://x.com/kvistp/status/1967115650276749439
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Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#5every major news org now blocks the parasitic "AI" crawlers
examples:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt
https://www.cnn.com/robots.txt
https://www.nbcnews.com/robots.txt
anyone that says "AI is the worst today it will ever be", no
because that was before the world reacted to it
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#6I think this is a serious issue, but I gotta say
> one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods
I do not think that is a basic task!
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#7every major news org now blocks the parasitic "AI" crawlers examples: https://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt https://www.cnn.com/robots.txt https://www.nbcnews.com/robots.txt all they will be training on now is spam anyone that says "AI is the worst today it will ever be", no because that was before the world reacted to it
They torrented a shitload of books illegally and trained on them.. but they're unable to get past The Great Wall of robots.txt?
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#8For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#9This isn’t surprising to me at all. These services put too much trust in “the most common answer” when that might not be the correct answer. Just because people think one thing doesn’t make it true. It’s super easy to spread misinformation online. And if you can SEO to the top, the AI will think your site is correct. I see factually incorrect “ai summaries” in search results all the time and see that it cites ai-gene…
The problem is AI isn't being used to do what it should be good at: consuming a vast amount of data, following logical connections and thus being able to determine the veracity of claims.
AI should be good at finding logical contradictions and grounding statements against a world model based on physics...but that's not how LLMs actually work.
Re: AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
#10I think this is a serious issue, but I gotta say > one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods I do not think that is a basic task!
It is definitely not a basic task. A lot of humans have trouble with it.
It is one of the areas that I think AI can overtake human ability, given time.