The moment a politician's kid drinks bleach because of Google's AI is the moment any regulatory action is taken.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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Like when they got drafted to Nam
If its job is to write a fan fic on what may or may not be true on what you asked for, then it does a great job. But typically people search for information, and getting what is essentially a glorified auto complete isn't useful. It's like big tech has learned nothing about the massive issue of disinformation and just added fuel to the fire to an unsolved problem we're still very much trying to figure out.
just like there's no solution for not punishing youtubers who follow the rules while allowing doxxers and pedos to use youtube to dox people and lure little girls into their houses.
I'd have to send you back in time.
Yeah no shit, that's what LLMs do
They could probably mostly or entirely fix it, but to do so they'd have to better curate search results. Because what it does is summarize the top search results for the query.
The problem they can't fix is consistently getting useful high quality search results to the top without getting misinfo, disinfo, irrelevant info, trolling, answers to similar but not identical questions or memes as high or higher.
You mean hallucinations like this one?
How about turn it the fuck off since it sucks and eventually will kill someone.
I know, right? This seems so fucking obvious to me. Maybe I'm just old school, but I still believe if you come out with a new product and it sucks you should pull it from shelves and go back to the older better one that people liked before you drive all your customers away.
That doesn't seem to be the attitude of modern tech tho, SOP now seems to be if you come up with a new version and it sucks and everybody hates it, you double down, keep telling people why it's actually better and your customers don't know what they want and refuse to change course until either you fix it or all your customers leave. This apparently is better in some way. Not sure how, but most of the companies seem to be doing it.
But there's money to be made...
Somebody has to think of the shareholders!!!....
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