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Same can be said about the results that pop up on your favorite search engine or asking other people questions. If anything advances in AI & search tech will d

Same can be said about the results that pop up on your favorite search engine or asking other people questions. If anything advances in AI & search tech will do a better job at providing citations that agree & disagree with the results given. But this can be a turtles all the way down problem.

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izacus 3y ago
No it won't and random search popup results are already a massive societal problem (and they're not even used like people are attempting to use AI - to make decisions over other peoples lives in insurance, banking, law enforcement and other areas where abuse is common when unchecked).
acdha 3y ago
There’s a real difference in scale and perceived authority: false search results already cause problems but many people have also been learning not to blindly trust the first hit and to check things like the site hosting it. That’s not perfect but I think it’s a lot better than building things into Word will be. There’s almost no chance that people won’t trust suggestions there more than random web searches and the quality of the writing will make people more inclined to think it’s authoritative. Consider what happened earlier this year when professor Tyler Cowen wrote an entire blog post on a fake citation. He certainly knows better but it’s so convenient to use the LLM emission rather than do more research… https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-chatbot/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-p...
jabradoodle 3y ago
Low quality blogs etc stand out as low quality, LLMs can eloquently state truths with convincing sounding nonsense sprinkled through out. It's a different problem and many people already take low quality propaganda at face value.

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Same can be said about the results that pop up on your favorite search engine or asking other people questions. If anything advances in AI & search tech will d

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izacus 3y ago
No it won't and random search popup results are already a massive societal problem (and they're not even used like people are attempting to use AI - to make decisions over other peoples lives in insurance, banking, law enforcement and other areas where abuse is common when unchecked).
acdha 3y ago
There’s a real difference in scale and perceived authority: false search results already cause problems but many people have also been learning not to blindly trust the first hit and to check things like the site hosting it. That’s not perfect but I think it’s a lot better than building things into Word will be. There’s almost no chance that people won’t trust suggestions there more than random web searches and the quality of the writing will make people more inclined to think it’s authoritative. Consider what happened earlier this year when professor Tyler Cowen wrote an entire blog post on a fake citation. He certainly knows better but it’s so convenient to use the LLM emission rather than do more research… https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-chatbot/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-p...
jabradoodle 3y ago
Low quality blogs etc stand out as low quality, LLMs can eloquently state truths with convincing sounding nonsense sprinkled through out. It's a different problem and many people already take low quality propaganda at face value.