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AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] yboutros@infosec.pub 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

At least with where AI is now, it's basically an incredible data compressor. My local copy of gemm4:31b takes up less than 50GB iirc, and I can retrieve information from the entire Internet with it without an internet connection.

Using an AI to train an AI is like taking a jpg of a jpg. You're going to lose information eventually. Hallucinations will become worse like in a game of telephone

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I mean sure, you can 'retrieve information', with no way of knowing where the information came from, whether the source was accurate, or whether what you've retrieved is even remotely faithful to the source material. So basically you can't actually retrieve anything, because it's just mashing words together in a way that happens to sound correct most of the time.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

That's the cost of compression. You lose the source material, so it may hallucinate a bit.

[–] MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You can ask it to provide a source.

Sometimes it will.

Sometimes it will make one up.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It will always make one up. Sometimes it may get lucky and the made up one exists and is relevant, but it still just made it up.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lossy compression with no internal mechanism for detecting information corruption.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

We did it! Progress! Let's go back and show Claude Shannon!