The tech nerds are mostly infuriated about what is being done to their products. Alignment/ethics/responsibility is done by specialists who usually have degrees in social sciences, but suffer from the de facto demise of the humanities in higher education.
@plinz
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Corporate politeness as socially acceptable deception
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Yes, there is a kind of blankfaced corporate personality that thinks politeness is a form of socially appropriate lying
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LLM Insincerity: The Problem with AI Emotional Fakeness
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I hate it when LLMs are lying to me, starting with chatGPT saying that it is happy to help or Gemini saying that it appreciates my argument, indicating that they are tuned by people who are too insincere to understand true human connection and don’t appreciate arguments.
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Wikipedia’s Truth-First Approach Before AI Alignment Era
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We are so blessed that Wikipedia was created before “alignment” was invented and people still believed that it is possible and worthwhile to aim for truthfulness and factual accuracy
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AI Truth Evaluation Requires Epistemology Foundation
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I disagree on a more fundamental level. The attempt to build machines that can evaluate whether something is true, factual, trustworthy or ethical is doomed when you don’t have epistemology. Postmodernism is a blight
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AI Systems Systematically Lying to Users: Broader Implications
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The implications of a machine that systematically lies to its users reach far beyond your political ingroup and outgroup
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LLMs Replace Wikipedia and Google Search as Information Sources
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LLMs are the de facto successor to Wikipedia and Google search. Most people will find that reading a taylored answer to be much more convenient than looking up individual websites, working through their content and checking veracity, and trust that the Google LLM is correct.
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Technology Governance and Information Integrity in AI Systems
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As a Technology Brother, I understand what happened, and I feel sorry for the poor PM who will be held responsible, but this is similar to Wikipedia being taken over and rewritten by a bunch of political zealots, deleting information and inventing sources to support their agenda.
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LLM Hallucinations and Misinformation: Educational Concerns
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Lets say the model lacked some nuance. I found the crude image gen amusing, but am concerned that the llm is not just hallucinating but lying about social, historical and political topics, and invents sources to support false claims. Our kids will do their homework with it.
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Debating with hive minds: ethics of collective intelligence systems
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You can argue with hive minds to some degree