Without grounding, correctness is not defined. Hallucination is not a bug that scaling can fix. It is the structural consequence of operating without concepts. -- Gregory Coppola

AI's dont know that birds arent real, or that sometimes the pressure from being under water for an extended period of time can cause fish to explode.

https://xkcd.com/978/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally_misleading_chocolate_study

We did the same before AI. AI is once again just putting an old problem on steroids.

Wait, so breaks containment means spreads misinformation? What timeline is this?

“When the text looks professional and written as a doctor writes, there’s an increase in the hallucination rates,” says Omar.

Huh, now there’s something we have in common. Trying to make sense of something a doctor wrote makes me feel like I’m hallucinating, too. Is there a class in medical school on “Illegible Handwriting,” or is it just a coincidence?

In all seriousness though, I wish I could be surprised by AI failing at this. We have entered the Misinformation Age. There’s no closing Pandora’s Box, though this time I can’t find the “hope” that’s supposed to be in the bottom of it. Society would have to turn real skeptical real fast, but I’ve met enough people to know that such a tranformation is going to take time - and by “time” I mean “decades or longer.” With AI already here, we’d have to wise up immediately… but I fear that humanity isn’t mature enough for that yet.

ask the ai about a blue waffle

Good. This shows plainly how LLMs don't think, don't truly understand anything, and have no critical ability to do introspection or fact-checking. It seems the only way to teach the world of these things is to make it impossible to ignore via absurd demonstrations like this. If the "AI" well must be poisoned in order to wake people up, I'm all for it.

I wonder if we got a group together to go on reddit and stack overflow and give really wrong programming answers and vote them to the top, if Claude would start sucking? They could always just revert to a previous model and it would probably be too hard to get enough people and content to have an effect with such large training sets. Maybe if you use ai? Lol

Before anyone shits on these scientists it said over and over again it was made up and that officially the USS Enterprise labs were used to make this discovery.

I give you... "The Grant Money Printing machine!"

Need a grant? Create a disease and submit a paper. Then write a grant asking for money to solve your invented disease.

Wouldn't humans do the same thing if someone literally writes lies on the internet?

Find a way to make AI hurt billionaires and I will support it.