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Intent does matter if you want to classify things as lies. If someone told you it's Thursday when it's really Wednesday, we would not necessary say they lied.
by Alupis 2y ago
Intent does matter if you want to classify things as lies.
If someone told you it's Thursday when it's really Wednesday, we would not necessary say they lied. We would say they were mistaken, if the intent was to tell you the correct day of the week. If they intended to mislead you, then we would say they lied.
So intent does matter. AI isn't lying, it intends to provide you with accurate information.
- ptx 2y agoThe AI doesn't intend anything. It produces, without intent, something that would be called lies if it came from a human. It produces the industrial-scale mass-produced equivalent of lies – it's effectively an automated lying machine. Maybe we should call the output "synthetic lies" to distinguish it it from the natural lies produced by humans?
- simonw 2y agoThere is actually an acknowledged term of art for this: "bullshit". Summary from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit > statements produced without particular concern for truth, clarity, or meaning, distinguishing "bullshit" from a deliberate, manipulative lie intended to subvert the truth It's a perfect fit for how LLMs treat "truth": they don't know so that can't care.
- docmechanic 2y agoI’m imagining your comment read by George Carlin … if only he were still here to play with this. You know he would.
- bombcar 2y agoElwood: What was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you. Jake: You lied to me. Elwood: Wasn't lies, it was just... bullshit.
- SoftTalker 2y agoAI doesn’t have “intent” at all.
- reaperducer 2y agoSo intent does matter. AI isn't lying, it intends to provide you with accurate information. Why are we making excuses for machines?