redditmademedoitClosed apps catfishing as FOSS via Google's AI results?
https://piefed.zip/c/opensource/p/1040051/closed-apps-catfishing-as-foss-via-google-s-ai-results
AI is just shit and doesn’t know what it’s talking about 90% of the time.
Strictly speaking, it doesn’t know anything. But regardless of the merits of LLMs, the AI box is the top result on the biggest search engine in the world by default, and what I’m wondering is whether this is an example of intentional manipulation of the search results to give people who don’t know better the false impression that apps are open source.
I know its not intelligent and thinking, you know what I mean. It could be manipulation, we’d really have know way of knowing. With how much it makes shit up tho, I lean towards that rather than conspiracy.
I understand you better now. Yes that’s certainly possible, plausible even. But it would seem useful for someone who wants to boost the credibility of their (hypothetical) keylogger app with exotic permissions to have a way to independently be recommended as a good open source option by two leading models in mainstream use.
I could absolutely see a situation like that, where someone tries to use it to intentionally push misinformation. In my experience with AI, its really difficult to get it to push consistent results, because as established, if really likes to hallucinate stuff. Using AI to push propaganda, at least in this stage of its development, seems like an exercise in futility.