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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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

this one is probably owned by israeli-sources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can Sesame Workshop sue this company for using its name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If you want to get me excited for AI, get me an Ai that will actually tell truth on everything, no political bias, just facts.

Yes, Israel currently is committing genocide according to the definition of the word, its not that hard

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not possible. Any model is only as good as the data it's trained on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...and also isn't stealing shit and wrecking the environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

For the stealing part we have open source, for the not wrecking stuff you just have to use I instead of AI

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

All LLM have been tuned up to do genocide apologia. Deepseek will play a bit more but even Chinese model fances around genocide etc

These models are censored by the same standards as the fake news.