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I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide (app.sesame.com)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30173090

The AIs at Sesame are able to hold eloquent and free-flowing conversations about just about anything, but the second you mention the Palestinian genocide they become very evasive, offering generic platitudes about "it's complicated" and "pain on all sides" and "nuance is required", and refusing to confirm anything that seems to hold Israel at fault for the genocide -- even publicly available information "can't be verified", according to Sesame.

It also seems to block users from saving conversations that pertain specifically to Palestine, but everything else seems A-OK to save and review.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 36 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This is precisely why having an open space for discussion about this on the Fediverse is crucial.

In your discord chat I can't obliterate well spoken murderous machine voices because I will never see them, and even if I do it will quickly be lost in the endless, unsearchable unfocused firehose of discord.

Here, when somebody starts talking eloquently about how we definitely need to support a genocide I can make them look like the dangerous, hateful fool they are IN PUBLIC and people can decide for themselves if I am right in a much more direct fashion than playing this endless game of cat and mouse with lots of little private communities being infiltrated and manipulated by this kind of legitimately scary targeted blindspot LLM development (scary not in terms of the LLMs capacity to do real work, but in what the tool says about the values of the people who desired to make it....).

edit what keeps bouncing around in my head is that I am horrified by the fact that we have thoroughly now answered the question of what genocide looks like in the form of a computer program and done so in a dizzying diversity of ways that rivals what the remaining wild landscapes around us used to posess in natural diversity.

Shame on us all.