[ Jer moved instances ]Sep 30, 2023
I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to Idiocracy (2006) scenarios (like Brawndo has what plants crave, Charlie Chaplin leading the 3rd Reich, etc) for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.

Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.

Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.

Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.
Show threadChristopherSep 30, 2023
@nyquildotorg It's largely been fixed now, but for a good while if you searched on Google "famous rock bands without bass players" you'd have auto-populated results of "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "The Who", and some other bands who, incidentally, contain some of the most iconic bass players of all time. All referenced from a fistful of AI-driven sites that fooled each other into that non-reality.
Show threadJamie Gaskins
@chrisabides @nyquildotorg I feel like this is the most realistic replication of human behavior by AI. Once false information has been passed around a certain number of times, a lot of actual humans will literally just believe it as fact.
Sep 30, 2023 at 3:39amWeb
Show threadAlaricSep 30, 2023
@jamie @chrisabides @nyquildotorg at least humans are somewhat in touch with the real world and real eggs
Show thread[ Jer moved instances ]Sep 30, 2023
@spinal @jamie @chrisabides I remember seeing a thing where "city kids" were told how we get eggs and simply refused to believe it