Frank PasqualeMar 1, 2023
“Chatbots can spew an on-demand stream of citation-heavy pseudoscience on why vaccination doesn’t work, or why global warming is a hoax. That misleading material, posted online, can then be swallowed by future generative AI to produce a new iteration of falsehoods that further pollutes public discourse.”
https://www.ft.com/content/e34c24f6-1159-4b88-8d92-a4bda685a73c
Generative AI is sowing the seeds of doubt in serious science

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Show threadAdrian ChanMar 1, 2023
@FrankPasquale of course the lapses in reasoning and errors in judgment originate in everyday social discourse to begin with - whatever our LLMs reproduce for us stochastically will only be a less functionally successful reflection of what some of our mainstream media outlets produce on a daily basis anyways
Show threadRuby Maelstrom

@gravity7 @FrankPasquale

Exactly, humans are already generating this same material, and they would be the ones to copy/paste it and post it online. It seems like this would just save them the time of having to type it out themselves, which could also be said for people using the tool to generate and copy/paste *accurate* data on the same topic. The danger is still with the humans.

Mar 2, 2023 at 6:07amWeb
Show threadAdrian ChanMar 3, 2023
@kinosian @FrankPasquale Truth and fact generally are just going to be in real jeopardy. Hallucination engines are just too good. Time to move on from filter bubbles to the reality distortion field writ large!