#AI#GenerativeAI#Hallucinations#ChatGPT#Bullshit: "Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems."
Wir sollten bei jeder Gelegenheit die Vorteile von quelloffener Software und Diensten hervorheben. Die Deutungshoheit Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple und Co. zu überlassen, hat uns dorthin geführt, wo wir heute stehen: Ein datengetriebenes Web, das ohne Nutzerdaten nicht überlebt und uns mit Werbung bombardiert.
#Astronomy has another case of "#Bullshit circles the planet before the truth gets its shoes on" - A recent paper looked for #DysonSpheres by finding red stars which coincided with radio emission. The hype resulted in a thousand news articles... except a new paper shows they failed to check whether normal red M-dwarf stars might happen to be close to normal radio sources (radio-loud AGN) 🤦♂️ https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14921
Now we'll be lucky if this good science gets 10% the press that the original did.
»New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC - Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."« 🤦♂️
And I see this kind of #antisemitic#bullshit from #leftists sooo regularly in the #fediverse that I accidentally used "regularly" twice here (and I can't edit it because #Misskey :P). Bloody hell. :chuckling_okuu:
Software, Dienste oder andere Abonnements, die zusätzlich zur Abogebühr Werbung anzeigen, werden von mir umgehend gekündigt. Werbung impliziert oft auch eine Form von Nutzer-Tracking, was für mich inakzeptabel ist. Unabhängig davon ist es einfach keine Option. Als Verbraucher müssen wir solchen Praktiken klar widersprechen.
I was very briefly in a discord group for writers that I’d been invited to join. Someone posted something which included the word “bullshit,” and the discord host said there was no room for such language as it was a “family-friendly” forum, something that was definitely not mentioned before I joined up. I quickly left the server, as I use words much more salty than that, and do not write “family-friendly” fiction. #WarningContainsLanguage#language#bullshit#WritingCommunity
🤔 Instead of creating new terms/words for AI and LLMs that have run amuck, I think “AI bullshit” and “LLM bullshit” both roll off the tongue rather well. You may optionally shorten bullshit to “BS” or even the 💩 emoji if you prefer. I encourage you to call people out on their bullshit when they are abusing this autocompletion technology.
BREAKING: House passes bill to criminalize criticism of Israel — a bill opposed by numerous Jewish groups, numerous Jewish members of Congress, and the ACLU.
Am Donnerstag vergangener Woche sagte Nadella den Analysten in der Telefonkonferenz Axios zufolge: "Sicherheit liegt unter jeder Schicht des technischen Aufbaus und ist unsere Nummer-1-Priorität". 🤭😂