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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 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 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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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago

That is the idea behind Theil and company, to render politicians obsolete by fueling influence through social media manipulation.

To further this end via personal data such that they personally tweek you during your screen time.

AI is already influenced to bias answers on various topics per owner preference. That’s currently being mass tested now.

Social science data on retractions of bad or erroneous headlines, going back decades, shows retractions don’t work. The initial information blast holds sway. It sticks, for better or worse. Outliers exist, we’re talking middle of the bell curve.

You may already have an opinion, but many more do not and will thus be swayed.