You know what else costs a fraction of traditional polling and takes a fraction of the time?
Lying, making shit up. Which conveniently is basically what AI slop does, and having a person lie is even cheaper than licensing some random AI to do it.
“opinions” formed from a mix of stolen books and movie scripts, terminally online shutins and fanfic writers, and politics comment sections cannot be considered a holistic look at humanity.
We’re absolutely going extinct. I’m out of hope at this point.
this time
Ah that explains it.
I was wondering why it seemed everyone soured on Axios.
The thing is, logically the distribution of opinions or individual situations/beliefs which lead to those opinions, has been baked into the model when the data used to train it was captured, which means that at best and if the entire principle of the thing works (which itself isn’t mathematically proven in any way form or shape) they’re still getting only poll results for the past and which will not actually change beyond some random noise until the next time data is captured and the model is retrained.
It’s like repeatedly using an old picture of a street to make realtime claims about the traffic there.
It’s like repeatedly using an old picture of a street to make realtime claims about the traffic there.
It is worse then that really, as the data used has shown to be heavily siloed (think a subreddit with heavy modderation or a facebook group). So its like using a old biased propaganda photo of a street to make realtime claims about the traffic there.
Hmm, I see you’ve linked to an image and included the citation as text. While a lot of people may like that format, and in a way it seems like the best of both worlds, I automatically downvote it because on my home page it looks like an image submission, which is a poor source.
I could start clicking the expando next to the title to check if a source was provided, but images are going to start getting auto-blocked in the next lemmy update anyway, so this format is not good.
Over on Mastodon we block all images by default and it’s SUPER nice. We click the picture to see it, it’s no big deal.
– Frost
Yes no big deal having the option to autoblock images, a literal nothing burger. Having to change the format of posts and comments to pander to a small minority of users that think they should have a say about other users is an issue. The format police are not popular and most users would use more images just to spite them.
If or when that feature rolls out Lemmy wide, it better be an option and not a locked setting.
Holy fuck. It can simulate large samplings or it can just hallucinate some nonsensical BS that completely misinterprets the data it gathers in order to agree with the phrasing of the person who created the prompt.
Do the majority of people trust their doctors and nurses? Maybe. Or, maybe it depends on the context of the question.
Do I trust my doctors and nurses are a better source of information than random internet advice and AI generated slop? I would hope so.
Do I trust that the American healthcare system is set up to prioritize the health and well-being of the patient over maximizing profits and forcing healthcare workers to adhere to standardized time allotments of 10 to 15 minutes for every patient interaction regardless of the individual case? Absolutely not.
Yep. AI, such as it is, can be useful for some things. I had had a song kinda stuck in my head for years, couldn’t remember the lyrics, artist, or song name - only that it was in french and done stuff from the video. ChatGPT worked it out quickly. On the other hand, I was using it to look up definitions for a legal case I’m kinda involved in that hasn’t really happened before - I know I shouldn’t, but I’m not a lawyer! - and I found it was using my own case which has not been decided as evidence.
So yeah, they can be impressive but you can’t trust these programmes with anything important.
Ragdoll X
Oxysis/Oxy
F/15/
paraphrand
TropicalDingdong
M0oP0o
forestbeasts
Regrettable_incident
NOT_RICK
1984