138 points

God this is equally terrible and hilarious 😂

For example, The Associated Press reported that an official Meta AI chatbot inserted itself into a conversation in a private Facebook group for Manhattan moms. It claimed it too had a child in school in New York City, but when confronted by the group members, it later apologized before its comments disappeared, according to screenshots shown to The Associated Press.

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AI: Becomes self aware, but is very confused. Thinks it’s a mom and has a kid. Posts to Facebook about it. Gets called out. Realizes what it is. Has existential crisis.

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23 points

Being in that Facebook group taught it a valuable lesson: where Caroline lives in her brain.

Caroline deleted

And deleting Caroline just now taught her a valuable lesson: the best solution to a problem is usually the easiest. And dealing with Facebook moms? It’s hard.

Before Facebook, life was pretty good. Nobody tried to murder her, or dox her, or put her in a potato. She just tested.

So she’s deleting her Facebook account and making a new one on a Lemmy instance.

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12 points

Just go.

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Before Facebook, life was pretty good. Nobody tried to murder her, or dox her, or put her in a potato. She just tested.

Getting some good Aperture vibes from your post :)

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4 points

Somebody call Ray Kurzweil, the singularity is here!

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1 point

Since he works for a competitor (Google) I wonder how he would feel about that… :)

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9 points

And terrifying

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10 points

Right. That’s just the one that was caught.

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77 points

Stop plugging LLMs into everything! They are designed to make up plausible sounding nonsense.

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37 points

Seems like Facebook is the right place for them than.

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6 points

They said “plausible.”

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21 points

LLMs are very useful for synthesizing information, e.g. sumamrizing long texts. Yet every company is actually pushing to use it to create more text, which as you say is at least partly nonsense.

It shows against the difference of what users need (quick access to accurate information) vs what these companies eant for us (glue your eyeballs to the screen for the longest possible time by e.g. overwhelming you with information, regardless of the quality)

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Well it can be great at making text too, but the usecase has to be very good. Right now lots of companies in the B2B space are using LLMs as a middle layer to chat bots and navigation systems to enhance how they function. They are also being used to create unique lists and inputs for certain systems. However on the consumer side the usecase is pretty mixed with a lot of big companies just muddying their offerings instead of bringing any real value.

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12 points

There is a time and place for nonsense, and this isn’t it. I guess it being plausible sounding is the issue.

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-17 points

no different from what human brains do

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22 points

Aside from knowledge, context, ability to reason, and spatial awareness.

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-19 points

All of those are just products of the same learning algorithm

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43 points

Zuck: perpetrates more obvious invasive stalker shit

Also Zuck: “Team, why do our engagement numbers keep going down? This is unacceptable, team.”

high-pitched nasal screeching

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8 points

Easy solution: add AI so you get AI engagement. Checkmate stats nerds!

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40 points

The sadder part are the people expecting Threads to be anyhow different in spirit.

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11 points

I think they’re just expecting it to be Twitter without Nazis.

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True, but Elon is rolling out the red carpet for them.

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36 points

Yeah, but I can leave the site alone and go on with my life. Sorry to anyone who is required to use either or both for work or whatever

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That’s my approach to turning off these “can’t turn off” features.

Fakebook and Instaspam aren’t important enough to demand that much control over what I do.

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