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Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People tell me the hallucinations aren't a big deal because people should fact check everything.

  1. People aren't fact checking
  2. If you have to fact check every single thing you're not saving any time over becoming familiar with whatever the real source of info is
[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My friend told me that one of her former colleagues, wicked smart dude, was talking to her about space. Then he went off about how there were pyramids on Mars. She was like, "oh ... I'm quite caught up on this stuff and I haven't heard of this info. Where can I find this info?" The guy apparently has been having super long chats with whatever LLMand thinks that they're now diving into the "truth" now.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you've got a new batch of idiots just "contributing" to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn't even read themselves.

So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn't ask for a LLM's opinion, they're like "what's the problem? Is any of this wrong?" Because it's entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

So many posts on on social media are obviously AI generated and it immediately makes me disregard them but I'm worried about later stages when people make an effort to mask it. Prompt it to generate text without giveaways like dashes. Have intentional mistakes or a general lack of proper structure and punctuation in there and it will be incredibly hard to tell.