Mastodawn

Yeah so let's refocus on the real perspective here. It doesn't matter at all how good these models are at code or finding vulnerabilities if we destroy our ability to seek and share knowledge.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧

@mttaggart

'Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”'

Cognitive surrender truly captures it (so to speak).

If feel blessed in retrospect, being of an age cohort in which students were expected to learn, memorize and think versus simply consume and disgorge knowledge on a transactional basis.