Just read an article about chatgpt "lying" about someone being dead and it's like "I asked it for the link to the obituary but it doubled down on the lie and provided a fake link instead" and I'm begging people to understand that it's a statistical model, it doesn't know it's lying so it can't "double down". The statistically probably answer to "where is the link" is not "I'm sorry I made it all up", it's a link. It doesn't even know what a link is, it just knows vaguely what one looks like so you're basically asking it "generate a plausible looking link to an obituary in the guardian" and it did

The AI isn't malevolent, it's just NOT AI

@eniko
Thisy this this this.

I've been having an argument in another thread, but can't seem to get it through people's heads: calling it "AI" is not just an issue of semantics, it's got deep ramifications for how we treat it, especially those that don't understand it.

(I am thinking of calling it 'metaverse+' just to try to kill it)