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jacquelines 🌟society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.
tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?
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Chloe@jacqueline way ahead of you. They won't share numbers but I think PA got a nice boost from the layoffs...
Woozle Hypertwin@jacqueline Coming Soon: ChatFlare™ -- the service that provides an AI-generated simulation of your web site for when demand exceeds your site's carrying capacity. Guaranteed to be convincing most of the time!
Viridi Vix [woofing]@woozle @jacqueline (generic-"you" used throughout) and when that business model fails, they'll just reuse that tech and webscrape your site for free without consent and generate millions of webpages based on your sites and cash in on nonsense SEO tags instead
Innovation! 🎉
pcbeardHooking up ChatGPT to Bing will only make me use it less (which is hard to do, since I only use DDG). But yeah, if anything, we need an AI version of Snopes to fact check its brethren.
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@pcbeard @jacqueline @moviemorgz
DDG uses Bing under the hood. Not exclusively, I don't think, but it's there.
Darin Strachan@pjohanneson @pcbeard @jacqueline @moviemorgz this page on DDG sources explains it:
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/
“…we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.”
“When we send a request to a partner for information used in search results, the transfer of information is proxied through our servers so it stays anonymous.”
@darins @pjohanneson @jacqueline @moviemorgz thanks for the heads up. DDG certainly packages these results in a way I find more digestible. I find both Bing and Edge really uncomfortable to use. But it will be interesting to see if ChatGPT becoming more tightly integrated with Bing affects DDG in a discernible way.
Deadly Headshot@pcbeard @darins @pjohanneson @jacqueline @[email protected] If DDG gets contaminated by Bing's ChatGPT toxic waste, I'll have to find a new search engine. I wonder if @Mojeek can guarantee never to pollute their results with AI?
Mojeek Search Engine@dheadshot @pcbeard @darins @pjohanneson @jacqueline @[email protected] everyone's doing it eh? We've got some big things on the horizon but there's nothing like that 😉
Halcek@pcbeard @darins @pjohanneson @jacqueline @moviemorgz What’s your experience with Brave Search over DDG? I am keen to try it instead now.
AmbularD@pjohanneson @pcbeard @jacqueline @moviemorgz Hence why I use StartPage mostly (yes, I'm aware it has its own potential issues. Pick your poison.)
enchantedsleeper 🌈⭐@pjohanneson @pcbeard Yeah, I don't think that Bing's ChatGPT integration will affect providers like DDG that use its search engine, since it's more like a chatbot layer that parses results for you (based on the demos that I've seen).
Though I sympathise with not wanting to touch Bing in any form, although it's hard given the majority of niche search engines use Bing's tech.
Alice@pcbeard I was starting to imagine a whole horde of ChatGPT peers generating complaints about how the AI version of Snopes has a liberal agenda.
@__3ve the truth has a liberal agenda.
just adrienne@pcbeard @jacqueline @moviemorgz we regret to inform you that DDG uses Bing for its actual search results.
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Pseudo Nym@jacqueline tech guys: no?? What if we did it but, and stay with me here, at even *bigger* scale?
zceline@jacqueline uber for misinfo! disrupting the misinformation industry! sigh...tech, sometimes...🤦🏻♀️...
Jjack@jacqueline rest assured, the fact checking api will be coming soon for a low monthly fee. Free version with a rate limit of 5 facts/day
Michaela Sue@jacqueline misinformation as a service!
Justin Werner@jacqueline It's redundant, actually 🙂
Shawn@jacqueline could an AI be created with the task of weighing the “likelihood of truth” to any given statement our story?
D2@muzikant @jacqueline yes. Now, can faux content be deployed to undermine the detector’s sense of what is legitimate? Also yes, as demonstrated by the miles and miles of spammy keyword-rich content already online for other (bogus) purposes.
#elephantsAllTheWayDown
#elephantsAllTheWayDown
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎techbros always doing the most™️
@jacqueline I wonder at what point bot created content will outpace human created content, if it hasn't already
KrazyKat@jacqueline The BSometer is down — again — in need of another upgrade to process current disinformation levels.
OrpheusandEurydice@jacqueline absolutely no chance of patenting it, it's already been done, it's called Twitter.
Óscar Morales VivóSci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Misinformation Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Misinformation Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Misinformation Nexus
⚳ rapid unscheduled assembly ⚳@jacqueline so ChatGPT is a falsehood engine. It is designed to lie. GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, which is to say:
Generative means it makes shit up
Pretrained means that it plagiarizes a huge database of shit
Transformer means it permutes the shit until it passes a plausibility metric
Generative means it makes shit up
Pretrained means that it plagiarizes a huge database of shit
Transformer means it permutes the shit until it passes a plausibility metric
Slim Bill (He/Him)@wjmalik @jacqueline Autoconfabulation
H-ear-me-now Singh@coregaze @jacqueline it’s like that movie The Fly, except this is AI and entitled white bros
Solution: Jurassic World Dominion
Brian Walsh@jacqueline @rorystarr These Torment Nexus’ aren’t going to build themselves…
(yet)
Matt Palmer@brian nexuses? Nexii?
TransitBiker
Dancingwiththebeloved@jacqueline nailed it 👏
maya 
now at catgirl.globalSomething something from the cautionary novel "Don't create the torment nexus"
BoredomFestival
trindflo@jacqueline No, it would have to be disinformation to be useful.
RobertJacksonAuditor Accountant: I need to find a transaction. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Need an audit trail. Can you help, please?
IT guy: Sure can! Here's an audit trail! (Hands across a list of all transactions)
Auditor: Ummm ... this is the haystack.
Z̈oé@jacqueline marketing: hey, misinformation generation is our job!
bmaxv@jacqueline We can fight misinformation at any time we want to...
Most people don't seem like they want to, so it can't really be that much of a problem.
Kim Spence-Jones #FBPE@jacqueline Actually, machine-generated misinformation *could* be helpful, in that it may force people to become more sceptical and discerning about stuff they read. Thought that’s probably a vain hope; most people seem happy to accept any nonsense which conforms to their pre-existing prejudices.
We’ve certainly got the circuses part of ‘bread and circuses’ covered now!
emmatonkin@KimSJ @jacqueline
I guess the thought that comes to mind is that human-generated populist content didn't do that, and much of that came from people one would frankly cross the road to avoid. Given all the BS people have ingested from decades of sci-fi they might actually do even worse at applying a pinch of salt to machines that are literally designed to tell them what they want to hear...
I guess the thought that comes to mind is that human-generated populist content didn't do that, and much of that came from people one would frankly cross the road to avoid. Given all the BS people have ingested from decades of sci-fi they might actually do even worse at applying a pinch of salt to machines that are literally designed to tell them what they want to hear...
Christian Kent@KimSJ @jacqueline It’s a vain hope. If a post-vaccinated pandemic world proves anything, people will put up with lower standards and more shit if you ease them into it.
@whophd @jacqueline Sadly, I think you’re almost certainly right. Which is why I think we have to legislate against misinformation. It needs to be a criminal offence to knowingly or recklessly mislead the public. (‘Recklessly’ should provide the ability to prosecute unmanaged AI 😉)
Andrew Webster@jacqueline Are you misinforming us about inventing a machine that generates misinformation or did the machine generate misinformation about a misinformation machine being invented
Josh@jacqueline Honestly at this point anything that ends up in the news feed of shareholders has to be loudly innovated on and its fucking cursed. Well see weather balloon popper drones in like 10 months Im calling it.
Vint ProxLoving @neural_meduza though 😍🤣
Alex Lo@jacqueline Society: 😍😍😍
Z@jacqueline boiling down ChatGPT to merely a tool of misinformation is cynical at best. It's a wonderful tool helping millions in benevolent ways, mostly.
On the other hand, yes, it can spew a lot of nonsense, but I mean, which language model doesn't?
niplav@jacqueline
two different kinds of "misinformation" though: one means "whatever my political enemies believe" and the other is bullshit in the frankfurtian sense (with attempts being made to prevent "misinformation"#1 from being created)
two different kinds of "misinformation" though: one means "whatever my political enemies believe" and the other is bullshit in the frankfurtian sense (with attempts being made to prevent "misinformation"#1 from being created)
Cqoicebordel ❎@jacqueline Beyond the joke (which was funny :) ), I do think it's useful : it creates a laboratory repeatable baseline of what is misinformation, which is useful to effectively create something to spot bullshit :)
‘you just don’t get it, do you’
sincerely,
entitled white bro saviour complex
Antonio