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AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds (infosec.pub)
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"Computer scientists from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have evaluated 11 current machine learning models and found that all of them tend to tell people what they want to hear...."

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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You -do- realize you're getting advice from a machine that constructs sentences using mathematical algorithms, and has no clue at all what it's saying ... right?

[–] Bonson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yes I’m aware, I have a degree in the field. Nothing in my sentence would indicate that I don’t understand. I’m agreeing that it’s statistically biased towards the speaker, therefore, you can work to lazily normalize the result by investing the input.