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The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. (www.whitehouse.gov)
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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Kinda sorta.

AI, or rather LLMs, can barf out a lot of passable text quickly. That can be useful as a starting point for something useful, if a human mind is willing and able to review and repair it. It's like having an idiot intern whom you can never really trust.

But the number of people who use LLMs in a way that reflects and understanding of their limitations is diminishingly small. Most people just don't assume that something that looks valid needs to be fully and critically reviewed. That's why we've had multiple cases of lawyers having ChatGPT write theis legal briefs based on hallucinated legal precedent.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not a problem of the technology though, that's human idiocy.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On the one hand, absolutely, human idiocy.

On the other hand, as a society it behooves us to think about how to stop idiots from hurting themselves and others. With IT, and in the context of corpo marketing hype, I am deeply concerned about politicians using AI or allowing AI to be used to do things poorly and thus hurt people simply because they have too much faith in the tool or its salesmen. Like, for example, rewriting the Social Security database.