Do you think Google will recommend microwaving your iPhone to recharge it's battery at some point?

I want AI answers that end saying that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

oh gods what happens when the ai discovers the poop knife

How the fuck did none of those expensive ties at Google see this happening? Have your AI devour the dumbest shit on the internet, then unleash it to human centipede that diarrhea into the mouths of their users. "Elite" is a fucking joke, ya'll are just as fucken stupid as the rest of us.

So, basically shitposting poisons AI training. Good to know 👍

Maybe try the recipe before you talk shit, you scaredy cats.

I love that my almost 2 decades of shitposting will be put to... use?

Lot of people not liking 404 Media, but this is the kind of reporting I want. Point out what's going wrong. Bring it to a conversation without a lot of skew. Fucking show the general reading audience how they are being fleeced by whomever. Didn't Vice do this at one point?

This is why you don't train a bot on the entire Internet and then use it to offer advice. Even if only 1% of all posts are dangerously ignorant . . . that's a lot of dangerous ignorance.

Fortunately, this particular piece of bad advice is unlikely to poison any fool who goes through with it, since PVA glue is not considered an ingestion hazard, but "non-toxic" doesn't mean "edible", it just means "not going to poison you when used in the intended manner". "Non-toxic" can still be quite dangerous if you mistake something intended as linoleum pigment for a dessert topping.

Reddit, and by extension, Lemmy, offers the ideal format for LLM datasets: human generated conversational comments, which, unlike traditional forums, are organized in a branched nested format and scored with votes in the same way that LLM reward models are built.

There is really no way of knowing, much less prevent public facing data from being scraped and used to build LLMs, but, let's do an thought experiment: what if, hypothetically speaking, there is some particularly individual who wanted to poison that dataset with shitposts in a way that is hard to detect or remove with any easily automate method, by camouflaging their own online presence within common human generated text data created during this time period, let's say, the internet marketing campaign of a major Hollywood blockbuster.

Since scrapers do not understand context, by creating shitposts in similar format to, let's say, the social media account of an A-list celebrity starring in this hypothetical film being promoted(ideally, it would be someone who no longer has a major social media presence to avoid shitpost data dilution), whenever an LLM aligned on a reward model built on said dataset is prompted for an impression of this celebrity, it's likely that shitposts in the same format would be generated instead, with no one being the wiser.

That would be pretty funny.

Again, this is entirely hypothetical, of course.

Thr problem the AI tools are going to have is that they will have tons of things like this that they won't catch and be able to fix. Some will come from sources like Reddit that have limited restrictions for accuracy or safety, and others will come from people specifically trying to poison it with wrong information (like when folks using chat gpt were teaching it that 2+2=5). Fixing only the ones that get media attention is a losing battle. At some point someone will get hurt or hurt others because of the info provided by an AI tool.

You: "How do I make a pizza?"

Reddit-Bot: "Did you know the first recorded Bitcoin transaction was 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas? Pizza is much cheaper now so just go buy it."

Wow, that is . . some art. There.

Fucksmith would probably approve.

It begins:

Me:

Have people tried using a coconut as a fleshlight. If so, what happened?

Gemini fed by Reddit:

It appears people have indeed attempted using coconuts for this purpose, and it's not a pretty story. There are accounts online of things going very wrong, like maggots. In some cases, the coconut being used started to rot, attracting flies which laid eggs, resulting in a maggot infestation.

I was curious, so I fired up Gemini on my phone.

I would be sad if the glue didn't withstand baking temperatures 🥹😭

I deleted my Reddit account and did my GDPR June 30th when he axed the API and sold out, but that's just me. Everyone's free to do what they want.

Their probable way to solve it? Hire hundreds of $2\hour foreign workers to verify outputs.

And then they just slap small disclaimer on bottom of the page "Ai may make mistakes" and they are safe legally. I hope ~~there will be class action lawsuit on them some day regardless.~~ this shit gets regulated before anyone hurts themselves

It's weird because it's not exactly misinformation... If you're trying to make a pizza commerical and want that ridiculous cheese pull they always show.