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pluc • today at 12:25 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

That's happening across the board when it comes to models that feed off online information. Create a website with a false claim, have AI slurp it up and spit it back out when a user asks a question.

Happy elections.


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mrweasel • today at 1:22 PM

Oh no, my uncritical ingestion of data, based on the assumption that all data is of equal quality, and that more is better, has failed. How could this happen!

You've always needed to be critical of your sources, your teacher tried to explain that when you ripped of that Wikipedia article or clicked the first link in a Google search. How the fuck did the AI companies think they could avoid reading and rating the content they've been hovering up?

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jsrozner • today at 5:03 PM

I was re-reading a book, and I had a thought. I googled to see whether someone else had the thought. Google AI said the internet did in fact have the same thought as I did. But when I looked more closely at the reddit source that Google AI cited, it turned out only a single user had had the thought before, and that user was .... me, when I last read the book.

Lol.

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someonebaggy • today at 2:04 PM

But how do you get AI to slurp up the site? It's quite hard for a random to get a site indexed these days.

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RobRivera • today at 5:14 PM

Hypnotoad promises peace.

Hypnotoad promises peace

Hypnotoad promises peace.

... or brainslug

ariel-vigilance • today at 12:38 PM

That's very troubling. The scariest part is how easy it is, one Instagram post and you may change the customer phone number of Airbnb, or who is leading the election poles.

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