Comment on how things become science

Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My first thought as well. Artificial intelligence is not better or worse than human stupidity. At least I haven’t seen any LLM trying to convince me the earth is flat (yet).

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not to you, although I would bet it has done so to someone. The main issue is though, if you asked an LLM to write arguments for a flat earth, it would do so. Convincingly and insistent, without even questioning or critically analyzing why. Ask it to compare and balance arguments both ways. And it will do so as if both positions were equally real and valid.

    It has no notion of reality and no convictions of its own.

    It will also hallucinate fake papers and quote people that don’t exists to make its argument.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So, same as (some) people.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        See the difference between “some people” and ALL of LLMs.

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      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not unless you can find some people that believe Starfleet Academy is a real place and just skip right over all the times the paper literally overtly states it’s made up.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What about that paper that showed the world how wolves have a strict alpha-male based society?

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that just a shit study? Not specifically misinformation lile Wakefield’s “study”.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, correct.

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