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Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (6 children)

What I find surprising in the debate about AI and hallucinations is that everyone points the fact that's it's very dangerous and it will spread misinformation.. But the problem is the inability or unwillingness to fact check our information.

Nobody wants to fact check something they saw on meta or tik tok. Nobody will. There is no difference between someone trusting some random influencer and someone trusting an AI. They are both set to fail the same way. Both lack critical thinking.

Instead of being afraid of AI and hallucinations we should be investing massively in teaching the newer generations on fact checking and critical thinking.

IA is a great assistant but only if you can fact check it. If you can't or won't then it's a terrible assistant that will set you up to fail.

To be clear, I also struggle to fact check stuff and I definitely was misinformed many times in the past. Nobody is really immune to that problem. IMO IA doesn't change much about that problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I generally make a sanity test by starting a new and ether use different words for the same request or tun it around, like trying to get my initial prompt by prompting the results I got in the first chat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If you have to fact check it every single time you use it, it's completely fucking useless.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

But you shouldn't have to actively fact check every headline from the BBC because their headline doesn't actually say what you read.

And there's very little value to "summarizing messages" if you aren't actually summarizing messages and the content doesn't match the summary.

Yes, you should do more critical thinking, but lowering the quality of information of every interaction with the internet very clearly makes things worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don't. I guarantee it.

Most people don't read news for a living. You can't fact check everything you read online. That's physically impossible. And if you'd be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don't read any further. Not because you're too stupid, but because you're not that interested in Trump's latest shenanigans or Italy's economic outlook.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You didn't even read my entire comment...

Read it entirely and you will see that this aggressive tone wasn't necessary or justified.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you have to fact check everything it says, we're better off as a species boiling the developers in dog shit.

"we've added a profoundly energy intensive feature that is wrong most of the time" okay, get in the vat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

This is true. Its baffling to me that so many people 'trust' influencers as much as they do.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Curse you, AI from 1974!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

graphene os looking more & more attractive every day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It's great. Been using it for three or four years now. Never looked back.

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