Bots are invulnerable to consequences for bad behavior. The only way to exclude bots from any kind of electronic interaction is reliable authentication of non-bots.
ETHICS
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Navigating Surveillance and Spoofed Messages in Digital Future
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Imagine that you do not only live in a world where government and sustainable corporations spy on and model you, but every message and post you read from a friend, family member or trusted authority is likely to be spoofed some of the time. How do you intend to deal with that?
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Authenticating Human Content: Certificate Chains and AI Trust Systems
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It's seriously time that we implement a solution that tracks which content is generated by authentic humans. Closed certificate chains for every app that touches content from creation to reception. Epistemic communities enabled by AI systems that maintain trust and integrity
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Repetitive Practice Barriers and Cognitive Disabilities in Skill Mastery
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I hate doing anything repeatedly, which is a cognitive disability in its own right, because it makes it harder to achieve mastery in fields that require repetitive practice
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Microsoft AI Training Data Transparency Concerns Raised
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Finally, as is usual and *completely unacceptable* the public does not have information about the training data used to build this thing, just the info that Microsoft made it.
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RAG Cannot Prevent AI Hallucinations and Misinformation
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Also, it's worth noting that RAG (retrieval augmented generation) doesn't fix the problem. See those nice links into NYC web pages? Not stopping the system from *making shit up*. (Second column is chatbot response, third is journalist's report on the actual facts.) >>
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LLMs Fundamentally Designed to Generate Inaccurate Content
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It seems to bear repeating: chatbots based on large language models are designed to *make shit up*. This isn't a fixable bug. It's a fundamental mismatch between tech and task. >>
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NYC AI Chatbot Spreads False Information to Small Businesses
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There's a lot that's alarming in this article, but perhaps the most alarming part is the NYC spokesperson assering that the problem can be fixed via upgrades: >> https://
thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-
chat-false-information-small-business/
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AI Detectors in Schools: Low Accuracy and Bias Against Non-Native Writers
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Do not use AI detectors in schools! Accuracy of AI detectors, already low, dropped to 22% when researchers added simple changes, like purposeful spelling errors. Worse, the writing of non-native speakers are more likely to be falsely flagged as AI writing https://
arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape
rs/2403/2403.19148.pdf
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ChatGPT Memory Feature Privacy Concerns
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Rye thing where ChatGPT takes notes on my preferences? I need to turn that off, it's been making very weird decisions about what to remember