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Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.

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[-] Brimos@lemmy.world 121 points 2 years ago

Speed running our way to “electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!” I see … if you know, you know.

[-] Dippy@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho did seem more entertaining at least then the circus we’ve had for the last few years. At least we can look forward to that?

Plus Ow! My balls! Does seem like some good tv.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 63 points 2 years ago

He was a great president. Saw a problem, admitted his ignorance to it, and hired the smartest person he could find to fix it.

[-] suodrazah@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

Our timeline is far worse.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

A benevolent idiot is better than a malicious ignorant.

[-] Dippy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

True, but given his cabinet, is 1 out of 6 that great in selecting?

[-] False@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

They can't all be like the attorney general.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

Quora

well, there is the problem

[-] Moc@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Festering pit of misinformation it is. And yes, they’ll ban you for calling it out or correcting the record.

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[-] Neato@kbin.social 55 points 2 years ago

You can melt anything. An egg will burn first. Then you will get some type of rendered carbon ash. Which will, eventually, melt and/or vaporize with enough heat.

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Melting is a physical process that changes the form and aggregation state of a thing, but it still remains that thing. Melted gold is still gold, for example.

Burning on the other hand is a chemical process that leads to new "things". The egg isn't longer an egg.

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[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 43 points 2 years ago

I would argue that it's no longer 'egg' once it's carbon ash and therefore never melted before it's existence ended.

[-] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Which came first, the egg or the time dilation of carbon atoms?

[-] snaggen@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago

Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn't have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?

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[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Eggs are primarily comprised of colloidal suspension.

Colloids cannot melt, as they are not in a solid phase

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[-] diviledabit@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

But then you're melting carbon ash and not eggs.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Which raises an interesting question: what if you cooked it in a zero oxygen environment (say argon, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide... basically welding gases because they're mostly inert). I can't burn in that context, so does it melt? Or do you drive off all the volatiles and are just left with carbon anyway?

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

In an inert atmosphere under enough pressure pretty much anything can melt without burning.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is the correct answer. In a vaccum wood won't burn for instance. It will melt, and even sublimate.

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 45 points 2 years ago

well it's referencing this article now

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Somebody needs to write an article about that article that states the opposite

[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Take frozen egg. Melt. Repeat as needed.

[-] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Thawing isn’t always melting.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 29 points 2 years ago

Doesn't everything technically have a melting point?

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, carbon, among lot's of materials, goes directly into sublimation stage. It has no liquid form.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago
[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 15 points 2 years ago

Ok, oversaw the 'technically'.

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 20 points 2 years ago

Yes but we generally don't want AI to answer questions like evil genies.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 2 years ago

AI was gifted to us as a wish granted by a Monkey's Paw. It can answer all of life's questions... but incorrectly.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Honestly the best analogy for AI I've seen.

[-] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yep, also id argue eggs are 'melted' by default, but if you froze and the reheated the egg it would then melt.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 28 points 2 years ago

Had a friend open a conversation line by referencing something on Quora and I immediately tuned out. Quora is a wealth of nonsense.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

When my daughter was 7 or 8 years old, I caught her answering questions on quora on topics that she knew nothing about. Something to keep in mind.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

She's probably more knowledgeable than their average user.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

She was answering questions about ear piercings which she’d never had, but yes you’re probably right!

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

can't wait till more LLMs and content generators get trained on this garbage data and repeat it all over the internet ad inifinitum.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Truly the best future.

[-] Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago

Even when Quora isn't being ruined with AI, it's flooded with Neo-Nazis that are self-proclaimed historians.

[-] Chunk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Wtf kind of quora are you reading to find neo Nazi shit? I just find people shilling crypto and bad tech advice.

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Egg shells melt at 825°C. Saved you a click.

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[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

Step 2: Add some water and urea

No thanks

[-] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Bear Grylls hates you rn

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[-] korok@possumpat.io 14 points 2 years ago

I do sometimes “provide feedback” on terrible featured snippets, but goddamn does it feel like shouting into a void.

[-] diviledabit@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Ublacklist Firefox plugin.

Add quota Add pinterest

Make the internet a little less shit

You can find some blacklist subs on GitHub too if you want to blanket filter out a lot of the other shit (like alternative.to and other bulk targeted result sites)

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

They'll be taking over the world any day now, just you wait

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[-] lloram239@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

You can freeze an egg and you can melting it again by putting it in a stove or microwave or just anything with temps above 0° C. Context matters and that human seems to blindly assume one specific context.

It's kind of ridiculous how we went from AI being mostly scifi and DeepDream, to every journalist expecting that AI has to be 100% correct all the time and be able to answer all the questions correctly. Of course AI will make mistakes when it was trained on incorrect data, that happens, that's what humans do all the time. AI stands for artificial intelligence, not magic.

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