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You are very well aware that a tv show takes liberties, and most people expect that “based on a true story” leans more on “story” than “true”. The problem is t

You are very well aware that a tv show takes liberties, and most people expect that “based on a true story” leans more on “story” than “true”. The problem is that chatgpt will lie to your face and tell you it isn’t lying.

gremlinsinc 4y ago
> The problem is that chatgpt will lie to your face and tell you it isn’t lying. So will the news media and I mean all from the right-wing drivel at Fox/Newsmax to MSNBC, and CNN. Tucker Carlson actually won a lawsuit regarding this because it was deemed that he was quote: 'an entertainer' NOT a 'news person'. So, basically an actor playing a news caster, and a large swath of society cannot see the difference. MSNBC, would say anything to make Bernie look bad so he'd drop down in polls, CNN as well. If you ask any of these people point blank to list the lies they've told on camera, under oath, you'd get a lot of '5ths'. Hell, I mostly get my news from just headlines on reddit/hn simply because reading past the headline usually leads to a lot of opinions, and biases. If I want opinions/biases, I'd rather read comments from people who DID read the article, as they're usually way more informed on the subject than the actual author.
slowmovintarget 4y ago
We're using the wrong language to describe what ChatGPT does. It can't lie to you because lying requires intent to deceive, and the software has no intent. The software does one thing: It generates text based on a prompt. All this other stuff that's being layered atop it, including filters to add political bias and filters to catch some derogatory speech, are after it does its thing, or before it's allowed to digest the prompt. Even without those fingers on the scale for good or ill, all ChatGPT can do is generate text from the prompt. It doesn't "know" things. It cannot process meaning. It can only produce likely text given its training text. The problem is in our anthropomorphizing the tool. It is a tool, and people who regularly use tools know their limitations and appropriate applications. We're making the tool available to a general public that has no idea what the limitations are. The public is told this is "AI" (it isn't), and they're thinking C3PO not automated MadLibs. The real thing this is going to do is drastically increase the noise, drowning out signal in our day to day lives. Nothing will be trustworthy information, because all of it will get washed through these generators.

gremlinsinc 4y ago

> The problem is that chatgpt will lie to your face and tell you it isn’t lying. So will the news media and I mean all from the right-wing drivel at Fox/Newsmax to MSNBC, and CNN. Tucker Carlson actually won a lawsuit regarding this because it was deemed that he was quote: 'an entertainer' NOT a 'news person'. So, basically an actor playing a news caster, and a large swath of society cannot see the difference. MSNBC, would say anything to make Bernie look bad so he'd drop down in polls, CNN as well. If you ask any of these people point blank to list the lies they've told on camera, under oath, you'd get a lot of '5ths'. Hell, I mostly get my news from just headlines on reddit/hn simply because reading past the headline usually leads to a lot of opinions, and biases. If I want opinions/biases, I'd rather read comments from people who DID read the article, as they're usually way more informed on the subject than the actual author.

slowmovintarget 4y ago

We're using the wrong language to describe what ChatGPT does. It can't lie to you because lying requires intent to deceive, and the software has no intent. The software does one thing: It generates text based on a prompt. All this other stuff that's being layered atop it, including filters to add political bias and filters to catch some derogatory speech, are after it does its thing, or before it's allowed to digest the prompt. Even without those fingers on the scale for good or ill, all ChatGPT can do is generate text from the prompt. It doesn't "know" things. It cannot process meaning. It can only produce likely text given its training text. The problem is in our anthropomorphizing the tool. It is a tool, and people who regularly use tools know their limitations and appropriate applications. We're making the tool available to a general public that has no idea what the limitations are. The public is told this is "AI" (it isn't), and they're thinking C3PO not automated MadLibs. The real thing this is going to do is drastically increase the noise, drowning out signal in our day to day lives. Nothing will be trustworthy information, because all of it will get washed through these generators.