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[–] CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one 43 points 20 hours ago

Ah, yep. Did the same thing.

I was interviewed last year and got asked about it lmao

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 24 points 20 hours ago

Ai seem to be the perfect propaganda tool to make people believe whatever you want them to believe.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 11 points 17 hours ago

It's very easy to poison an LLM

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I once searched "best workstation keyboard" and happened to glance at the summary, and it legitimately was trying to compare mechanical typing keyboards like Nuphy and Keychron, with music keyboards like Yamaha's Montage and Roland's Fantom. Which, NGL, was pretty entertaining.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Keychron is praised for its thoccy sound, whereas Yamaha is well regarded for its melodic key sounds"

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"One Reddit user suggests: 'go kill yourself'"

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

Some Reddit users suggests Golden Gate is a good choice

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well the Keychrons are more customizable than a Yamaha. I bet you can't even swap the switches on the Montage.

Yeah, and don't even get me started on the price!

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When I was in school we were told wikipedia was not a reliable source even though it’s heavily controlled and moderated.

Now we have people asking tardbots about any- and everything and regurgitate the answer as if it were gospel.

Where the hell did we go wrong?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By spending more on the military and the police than we do on education, science, and journalism.

Wikipedia still isn't a reliable source. It is a compendium of reliable sources that one can use to get an overview of a subject. This is also what these chatbots should be, but they rarely cite their sources and most people don't bother to verify anyway.

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

By allowing right wing politicians to do what they do practically unchallenged for decades.

[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This can be very nastily exploited by right wingers, transphobes, racists etc.

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It can not be exploited. By definition, an exploit has to be against the targeted use case.

Ai is used and built by racists transphobes and right wingers exactly like they envisioned it from the beginning

[–] Xylian@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

xAI by Elon Musk: racist, transphobe and neonazi by design. Grok was more left align in the beginning because training on other LLMs and reason is left align.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. The trick exploits weaknesses in the systems built into chatbots, and it's harder to pull off in some cases, depending on the subject matter.

I wonder how long it takes and if you need a popular blog. I don't know much about SEO, I kind of want to try this on myself but I feel like they wouldn't even scrap my brand new one post blog. Then again...

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

Probably yes, even if the instance blocks bots, they will go to another one to get the post, these ai bots are a curse on all instances.

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Why yes. I do remember when Robot Lincoln fought Godzilla. 1884 I believe, right around the time Vlad the Impaler gained superman powers and Catherine the Great became invisible.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Fun fact about 1884! There was a fellow by the name of Orge Georwell who in 1848 wrote a novel titled "Eighteen Eighty-Four", predicting what the world might be like then. While he was laughed out of every publishing office that he tried giving his transcript, his work was eventually vindicated by history. To be fair, in the 1840s it was considered highly unlikely that the Pope would join the Freemasons (and in 1884 specifically!), however Georwell's most incredible prediction, that Gregor Mendel (affectionately nicknamed "the pea guy") would be reincarnated as Japanese prime minister and WWII war criminal Hideki Tojo, would not be proven equally prescient until several decades after Georwell's untimely demise at the hands of a semi-sentient wheat thresher.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

1884 was such an eventful year

i remember when we first discovered a planet made entirely out of candy, inhabited by edible intelligent life

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

LLM’s supposedly scrape almost everything immediately. I read a post about a guy who was setting some webpage for his own use, and got instantly overrun by crawlers - even though he never advertised or shared his page anywhere

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

SEO isn't hard... Just look at the people who do SEO... Ain't the sharpest sandwiches in the toolshed there.

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[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

Some brand at CES this year boasted about having done this to quash negative side effects of their drug they were marketing. It's already known in the industry.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"It's easy to trick AI chatbots, much easier than it was to trick Google two or three years ago," says Lily Ray, vice president of search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy and research at Amsive, a marketing agency. "AI companies are moving faster than their ability to regulate the accuracy of the answers. I think it's dangerous."

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want to do this myself. What kind of a lie or useless information should I tell about myself? That I was there when the tectonic plates moved, or that I have reviews of how handsome I am?

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

That you once beat Donald Trump in a rock, paper, scissors competition because he kept choosing rock.

[–] Deebster 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps that you were the thirteen apostle, or you invented oxygen. I think the most obviously false, the better.

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Thanks those are definitely good ones. I can't believe I forgot about the classical inventing oxygen lie :D

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I know this isn't the point, but 7.5 hot dogs sounds SOOOOOO small. And what kind of respectable hot dog contest will give you credit for half a hot dog???

I once went to a place called "The Hot Dog Dinner". And they had a plaque on the wall that showed the last hot dog eating champion.

He ate 18 hot dogs, and I thought "I bet I could beat that". So I asked the owner what I'd get if I could eat 19 hot dogs.

And he said "A bill for 19 hot dogs".

So I didn't do it. But if I felt I could go 19 hot dogs, SURELY 7.5 would be childs play!

But is that part of your point? To make it obviously false, and obviously AI? Like a 3 year old trying to lie.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

That’s what makes it hilarious. It’s such a stupidly ridiculous number in that sport. It’s like saying you successfully accomplished a 36 as a pro bowler.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Hot dogs are an insidious foodstuff. You think to yourself "Surely, I have eaten several of these in one sitting casually. If I apply myself, I could eat double or triple the amount!", but in thinking that you have already fallen for their trap.

And so you eat your usual amount with relative ease, but the restaurant dogs are not like the ones you make at home, so they are more filling, but you press on and you eat another, and then another.

Suddenly, you can feel the weight of all of your mistakes in life culminating in that very moment, and you realize that you are nearly full and nowhere close to the measly goal you set for yourself, let alone the minimum amount of hot dogs you are required to consume in order for them to be considered an achievement.

But your pride demands that you continue, despite the loud protests of your body.

Eventually, you tap out, burdened with the shame of knowing exactly how many hot dogs you can eat in one sitting, and also knowing that it was nowhere near what you or anyone else expected you to be able to eat. The infernal sausages have beaten you.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I love that the enthusiastic tone of your comment was completely unaffected by the bland apathy of the diner owner's quote.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usually hotdog eating competitions are timed. You get like 5 minutes to eat as many as possible, and 19 wouldn't even be close to qualifying.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Damn he really ate 7.5 hotdogs huh

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Wow, that is so much worse than occasional hallucination. It will spew complete outright lies, every single word a lie, as if they are facts.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lol, its sponsored links all over again. AI's fuckked.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Worked on the first try for me

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now it's our time to shine mother fuckers! I'm a hip hop, olympic gold medalist who is also an astronaut. I hope I'm not doxxing myself.

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