• qaz@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      justifications for slavery cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.”

      It’s so bad it almost looks like if someone is poisoning the results on purpose. Although it’s more likely that we see this because it’s such extraordinary nonsense.

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        2 years ago

        I’d bet that there’s a spoof website out there somewhere, and that’s where it got it from.

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        poisoning the results

        Heh.

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    Well, those are “benefits”, even if for very wrong reasons. And the author did specifically search for it. The AI’s not saying it’s a good thing, it’s simply making up points for the question asked.

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    Seems like Google AI errs on the side of helpful over harmless, being too quick to provide answers to controversial questions, as opposed to something like ChatGPT being too unwilling to do so.

    In terms of honesty, there are only two clearly false statements of fact: the Amanita ocreata one (where it clearly answers for A. muscaria) and the Toblerone one (which I don’t understand at all). The benefits of slavery one is mostly correct, it’s just that they’re massively outweighed by the harms of slavery (namely the slavery bit). The pro-gun one is basically the common pro-gun arguments. All the “best X” lists look at the most famous ones and the ones on the most “best X” lists, and so reflect that bias.

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    2 years ago

    googles search engine already tends to confirm your bias if you word your search like these prompts. I’m not surprised that their AI does the same thing.