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https://futurism.com/the-byte/government-ai-worse-summarizing

The upshot: these AI summaries were so bad that the assessors agreed that using them could require more work down the line, because of the amount of fact-checking they require. If that's the case, then the purported upsides of using the technology — cost-cutting and time-saving — are seriously called into question.

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I respect you

but

butt

You seem to have a kind of "head in the sand" approach to this

Maybe educate yourself

Honestly you sound scared about this stuff.

You've already "respectfully" insulted me many times over because I'm not convinced that a sufficiently large language model is a 1:1 analogue to a biological brain no matter how much data (and energy, and water) goes in and how much carbon waste comes out of it.

if this train keeps moving at it's current pace, we're in for a massive upheaval

That's already happened, and a lot of its unmitigated momentum (and the damage it's already causing) is because of "THIS IS AI" hype marketing, which oversells the tools. The tools are potentially useful and quite powerful, yes, but they are not general artificial intelligence in the way that's still being researched and developed before, during, and since you bought into the "AI" marketing label for LLMs.

They are already here, they are already screwing over many people in the working class and they're already doing massive environmental damage, and pretenses of personhood for the treat printers (or insulting living beings as "afraid" or whatever Redditisms may come) isn't making them any more 1:1 biological-analogue sapient but it is certainly blurring actual scientific inquiry with "just like the cyberpunkerinos" wish fulfillment desires.

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