• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    AI will inevitably kill all the sources of actual information. Then all we’re going to be left with is the fuzzy learned version of information plus a heap of hallucinations.

    What a time to be alive.

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      AI just cuts pastes from the websites like Wikipedia. The problem is when it gets information that’s old or from a sketchy source. Hopefully people will still know how to check sources, should probably be taught in schools. Who’s the author, how olds the article, is it a reputable website, is there a bias. I know I’m missing some pieces

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        4 hours ago

        Much of the time, AI paraphrases, because it is generating plausible sentences not quoting factual material. Rarely do I see direct quotes that don’t involve some form of editorialising or restating of information, but perhaps I’m just not asking those sorts of questions much.

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        5 hours ago

        Man, we hardly did that shit 20 years ago. Ain’t no way the kids doing that now.

        At best they’ll probably prompt AI into validating if the text is legit