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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 45 points 2 months ago

Shortly afterward, several users publicly announced their subscription cancellations on Reddit, citing the non-existent policy as their reason. "I literally just cancelled my sub," wrote the original Reddit poster, adding that their workplace was now "purging it completely." Others joined in: "Yep, I'm canceling as well, this is asinine." Soon after, moderators locked the Reddit thread and removed the original post.

Really kind of just slid that pretty notable part of the story in there.

[-] trashxeos@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 2 months ago

This marks the latest instance of AI confabulations (also called "hallucinations") causing potential business damage. Confabulations are a type of "creative gap-filling" response where AI models invent plausible-sounding but false information. Instead of admitting uncertainty, AI models often prioritize creating plausible, confident responses, even when that means manufacturing information from scratch.

It amazes me how many different terms we've assigned to "an LLM we call artificial 'intelligence' just made some shit up because it sounded like the most logical thing to say based on probability."

[-] buh@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

“Lies.” It’s an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term trump-anguish

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

We love the word don't we folks? Very popular word. We love it.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

It's funny how "AI bros" will argue that we shouldn't use "lies" because that implies intelligence, and then simultaneously treat their LLM as intelligent

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Officer I didn’t commit tax fraud, it was simply a hallucination you see.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

You joke, but the accounting industry is working on LLM tools for auditing and tax

[-] Meh@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Seems like it'd be easier to say the piece of shit doesn't work

[-] falgscode@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Instead of admitting uncertainty

tech journalists stop assigning agency to the probability-based slop generator [Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE]

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