fantawurstwasserTrains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
MagicShelA BBC journalist ran the image through an AI chatbot which identified key spots that may have been manipulated.
What the actual fuck? You couldn’t spare someone to just go look at the fucking thing rather than asking ChatGPT to spin you a tale? What are we even doing here, BBC?
A photo taken by a BBC North West Tonight reporter showed the bridge is undamaged
So they did. Why are we talking about ChatGPT then? You could just leave that part out. It’s useless. Obviously a fake photo has been manipulated. Why bother asking?
I tried the image of this real actual road collapse: www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/…/12875776
I told ChatGPT it was fake and asked it to explain why. It assured me I was a special boy asking valid questions and helpfully made up some claims.
Wait, you’re surprised it did what you asked of it?
There’s a massive difference between asking if something is fake and telling it it is, and asking why.
A person would make the same type of guesses and explanations.
All this is showing is, you and ALOT of other people just don’t know enough about AI to be able to have a conversation about it.
Wait, you’re surprised it did what you asked of it?
No. Stop making things up to complain about. Or at least leave me out of it.
Then what are doing? Complaining it did exactly what you instructed it to do?
What else did you expect?
clearly, they asked it a question that average joe would do, and has shown that again its full of overly confident lies. it did not just reinforce the original belief of the user that it is fake, but it also hallucinated there a bunch of professional-like statements that are false if you take the time to check them. most people won’t check them though, and straight up believe what it just spit out and think “oh this is do smart! outrageous that people call me dumb for asking it life advice!”
But they didn’t ask it a question… They specifically told it the image was fake and explain why. That’s not a question, that’s a task.
The lack of basic reading comprehension being shown here excerpt explains the issue perfectly.
It’s not people relying on it, it’s people using it for stuff it’s not meant for!