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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 90 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I noticed something similar on websites like Reddit. I've come across an answer for a question on something I'm well educated on, and their answer is definitively wrong but "sounds correct". The reddit community will up vote them, and even down vote people who try correcting them.

But then later on I would come across a post on a topic I don't know, and I'm inclined to believe the answers because they sound right and there's a group consensus backing it up.

[-] kobra@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

This is my experience with AI, specifically ChatGPT.

If I ask it questions about how to do technical things I already know how to do, ChatGPT comes off as wildly inept often times.

However, if I ask it something I don’t know and start working through it’s recommend processes, more often than not I end up where I want to end up. Even with missteps along the way.

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

This was a concern of mine with companies training AI on reddit. Both reddit and AI struggle with confidently providing false info in a way that sounds true, so training AI on reddit seems like it would really compound this issue.

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