Tinker ☀️

With AI helping write bills and laws, will hallucinations be legally binding?

https://www.404media.co/heres-the-memo-approving-gemini-chatgpt-and-copilot-for-use-in-the-senate/

Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate

Copilot “can help with routine Senate work, including drafting and editing documents, summarizing information, preparing talking points and briefing material, and conducting research and analysis,” the memo says.

404 Media
Mar 11 at 9:21pmWeb
Show threadDavid J. AtkinsonMar 11
@tinker Another case of, “what could possibly go wrong?”
Show threadSimplicatorMar 11
@tinker It’s all so stupid :(
Show thread小津 OzuMar 11
@tinker mad world we live in
Show threadra6bitMar 11
@tinker We've mechanized bullshit. The growth of LLMs for previously precision-obsessed tasks mirrors the tactics that have destroyed rationality and cohesion in leadership.. the exploitability of errors and confusion is a feature, not a bug. It is erosion of confidence at scale, a wholesale plasticizing of reality so that it can be more easily remolded in their desired shapes.
It's a wave of bullshit so fast and furious there are simply not enough rational minds to stop the flood of exploitable garbage until it's too late and political authority or duty is gone.
The foundations of democracy are being murdered in broad daylight.
Show threadCM ThiedeMar 12
@tinker so Americans get to fund this crap as taxpayers, and get to pay for it with increased energy costs, and get to pay a higher price for every product/service sold from those companies incorporating it into their workflow because the cost of that increased efficiency (partnering with xyz_AI company) gets passed onto the consumer. Not to mention those that are paying a sub, on top of all that, just to make their lives easier/more productive. That's one helluva wealth transfer mechanism. It's like a cash vacuum. Let's burn up what's left of the earth so a handful can own it. WTAF
Show threadFoolishOwlMar 12
@tinker You know what? Fine. Let Congress destroy itself.
Show threadfleepMar 13

@tinker Depends on who's asking.

It's pretty common for judges to look at intent, and if there's reasonable cause to believe that legislation was drafted by LLMs and not carefully reviewed, they might decide certain provisions are void.

But uh... that's going to be heavily influenced by political views.