Anti-intellectualism is he law of the land
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Is there truly an audience for “I don’t want any proof, just answer my question”?
As Elon said, let that sink in. Perhaps an unpopular position, but if that’s all users want and it makes them more money, of course that’s what Google will do.
I’m in no way suggesting this is a good direction, but it’s unsurprising.
LWD@lemm.ee 2 days ago
ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yeah, I’d say that audience is most people, sadly
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 1 day ago
Is there truly an audience for "I don't want any proof, just answer my question"?
More people than I think we'd like to admit. Most people don't spend time verifying whether or not what they've seen is true, they just believe what they see first, especially if it conforms to their existing beliefs.
After all, these models are quite literally plausibility machines. Their entire goal is to generate text that sounds plausibly accurate, because that's how manual content reviewers fine-tune them. Their sole purpose is to generate whatever sounds plausible, not what's necessarily correct, so if there's one thing that will convince the masses that what it says is correct, it will be these "AI" models.
wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Today a friend told me about how, last night, a Google AI summary led to a huge fight between him and his partner. Turns out the AI summary was 100% wrong. I mean yeah, don’t make important decisions based on an AI summary. But a lot of non-tech folks still have no idea how inaccurate those results can be, and even more just plain don’t care.