This belongs in politics, not technology
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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When will people learn that LLMs have no understanding of truth or facts? They just generate something that looks like it was written by a human with some amount of internal consistency while making baseless assumptions for anything that doesn’t show up (enough) in their training set.
That makes them great for writing fiction but try asking ChatGPT for the best restaurants in a small town. It will gladly and without hesitation list you ten restaurants that have never existed, including links to websites that may belong to a completely different restaurant.
I basically agree with you but for your example that’s because ChatGPT wasn’t made to return local results, nor even recent ones.
So of course it’s going to fail spectacularly at that task. It has no means to research it.
As a non American I absolutely do not care. How do I make content like this not show up on my feed without unsubscribing to Tech Beehaw?
I mean I’m American and I’ve been looking for a technology community that actually posts cool and fun tech stories instead of apparently assuming every bit of tech is the anti-Christ incognito.
If anyone happens to find one let me know, because I feel like the only people that care enough to post here, care in the wrong direction and fucking hate all things technology.
You could use word filters, for this case "Republican".
This headline is garbage. Not only is it stating something that I haven't heard anyone seriously argue, it has nothing to do with the rest of the article, which just goes on to talk about how shitty a job ChatGPT is doing at the task.
There was literally an article either yesterday or the day before with the headline "AI being used to ban books in Iowa" or something to that effect.
Republicans are using AI to ban books is very different than saying AI is banning books. Nobody is saying "AI is banning books"
The argument does exist. This article by PEN America is one of the most widely spread ones and largely misrepresents the situation. It's based on a PopSci article with a similar headline, though the contents of the article tell a rather different story.
Nothing really says out loud what's going on: Republicans enacted an extremely vague and unrealistically short deadline book ban as part of a bill (that does some other stuff like removing AIDS education), forcing schools to either throw out every book that might be vaguely suspect or resort to funny measures like this. This school's use of ChatGPT was purely to save books that were on a human-assembled list of challenged books, to reduce the negative effect of the book ban, while being potentially defensible in court (remains to be seen how that'll work out, but they made an "objective" process and stuck to it - that's what matters to them).