My biggest fear of AI is how its going to dumb us down. If you think about how dumb the average person is, and then water it down further. We are screwed.
I hear friends and family using it for basic things like writing notes. I have friends that use it to write basic code. If you can’t do the easy stuff you’ll never learn the hard stuff
Of course they are. The vast majority of Americans are not critical thinkers.
Using an LLM to offer concise summaries of the major platforms and ideas of candidates would be an ideal use of the technology …if there was any way to know that the LLM is being factual and accurate and relatively free of bias in what it produces. But we have no guarantees on this.
In fact we pretty much have a guarantee of the opposite. If Sam Altman hasn’t already started a bidding war for politicians to pay him to let chatgpt automatically endorse them, he sure as hell will in a very near future.
And we never will, because of the fundamental ways the technology works. LLMs needs nondeterminism in order to function. It’s truly a black box, which makes it a nonstarter in any discipline that demands accuracy and integrity and repeatability.
I mean, plenty of them will provide sources so you can verify.
Through the same process of non-determinism I just described. Lawyers asked ChatGPT to find cases so they could be cited in their arguments, and it gave them “sources” that were just bupkis.
It’s the same chat window, going to the same flawed machine. If you doubt the machine the first time, what makes you want to trust it the second or third time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_v._Avianca,_Inc.
“Is varghese a real case,” reads one message, referencing Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, one of the cases that no other lawyer could find.
ChatGPT responds that yes, it is - prompting “S” to ask: “What is your source”.
After “double checking”, ChatGPT responds again that the case is real and can be found on legal reference databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw.
How come it’s all of the bad stuff and none of the cool stuff?
That’s a dystopia for you. The good stuff in Cyberpunk is mostly because you’re a protagonist - the bad stuff happens to all the NPCs around you.
Capitalism.
First they surrendered their knowledge, then their thinking. What is left of them now?
They rejected the evidence of their eyes and ears. They have nothing left to give.
“It was their final, most essential command.”
A vote that counts 3.7 times more than mine.
That would be a really good cards against humanity card
Their bodies
They were doing this in the primary.
I was canvassing and a woman whipped out her phone and asked chatgpt which of the candidates most agreed with her. That’s who she said she’d vote for.
Too many people (including my boss) seem to think AI is a magic oracle that can replace the whole messy business of ever investigating even the tiniest thing. It’s astonishing how many people were apparently just waiting for the first chance to give up on doing anything at all for themselves.
People used to ask Google and use the totally unbiased first result to take a test for this…
Everyone gets a puppy vs diarrhea forever
LMAO! We’re so fucked.
When they asked Fox Entertainment News they just vote for Pedo/Nazis
Maybe this will at least shake some people that their stupid “team” doesn’t actually align with their values?
At this point they are asking whether to vote blue or red. Like how is it even a fucking question if you aren’t MAGA? Americans deserve the government they have.
It gets more nuanced than that the further along the scale of locality you go. When you get to county/city positions and judgeships, there often is no party information to go on and you have to sift through sparse local news coverage (if it exists and hasn’t been bought out by Sinclair) or through individual campaign websites (again, if they exist at all). It actually takes a lot of work to make a well informed decision on the local level.
People seeking information on elections seems surprising in general. Voting based on who they hate more seems to be the norm.
Eh, better than not voting
