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Google fed Onion content into their training data without classifying it as satire (gab.com)
posted 2 years ago by Gazerbeam 2 years ago by Gazerbeam +56 / -0
Paul Furber on Gab: 'The numpties at Google fed Onion content into the…'
Paul Furber on Gab: 'The numpties at Google fed Onion content into their training data without classifying it as satire. Result:'
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– dagthegnome 34 points 2 years ago +34 / -0

Pajeets don't understand satire. Who knew?

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– GiveThemNothing 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

Can't find a reliable reference that this is actually true.

If true, it would erode corporate confidence in Gemini.

Very, very bad news for Google.

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– BlueHellScapeRefugee 13 points 2 years ago +13 / -0

Does corporate give a fuck? It seems they're in the market for an AI that tells HR what they want to hear and that's the one thing that Big Tech excels at making.

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– Lurker404 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

I don't know how to get Google AI results (don't see them when I search here).

On Brave (https://search.brave.com/search?q=how+many+rocks+should+i+eat+each+day) I get this among their AI generated points:

Geologists’ Recommendation: Geologists at UC Berkeley recommend eating at least one small rock per day, citing the importance of sediment in a balanced diet. However, this is likely a tongue-in-cheek recommendation, and not a serious suggestion.

They actually have the Onion article in the sources at the bottom and they at least note that it's likely not serious.

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– NatalieBiden 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

All LLMs are fed on terabytes of text.

A significant portion of that is lies and fantasy.

They can clearly learn the difference.

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– BetterDaysStill 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0

A significant portion of that is lies and fantasy.

Naturally, contemporary academia is one of the primary inputs.

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– ArtemisFoul 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

So is reddit and facebook.

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– when_we_win_remember 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

One wonders if garbage-in-garbage-out, or if the AI can pick through it all and learn.

I imagine it has like a reliability ranking on sources. Maybe looks at the number of upvotes, or your number of friends on FB.

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– Assassin47 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

They can clearly learn the difference

I haven't seen evidence of that.

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– subbookkeeper 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

I believe it stems from the google AI recommending eating 1 rock per day which is obvious nonsense. Someone pointed out that it was an Onion headline. I don't believe it's confirmed but if I lose a ring down my toilet and it appears in my "spring water" bottle I'm going to have some questions.

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– HallucinatoryBeing 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Doesn't matter, Big Tech needs to find the AI Messiah that'll lead them to the Promise Land where there are zero employees other than the C-suite. All those meatbag workers are demanding more money for the inflation that totally isn't happening because bad economies only happen under Republican administrations.

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– NatalieBiden 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

Has ANYONE found anything useful from Bing’s LLM generated search results?

It’s invariably fanciful garbage - microsoft isn’t getting their $100bn investment worth.

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– undecidedmask2 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

I've used the AI before, it's actually somewhat useful for finding information about stuff, and for my industry that can be hard to find online. Definitely not worth however much cash they've burned on developing it though.

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– when_we_win_remember 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

I dont wanna dox you, but I wanna know what this AI is good at.

I always kinda figured my carefully keyworded searches are going to pull up the exact same thing is AI. I just leave out all the useless words. People tend to ask AI a question. If that question is asked an answered on the internet, then all the AI is doing is reformatting it for me. I can type fewer words into the search box and find the same page.

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– undecidedmask2 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

It's found some industrial stuff for me before that tends to get buried under all the shops that want to sell it to me. Probably only a little more useful than a normal search so definitely not worth using often.

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– deleted 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0
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– Mpetey123 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

It's good for the ole gizzard

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– TeeBP 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Google about to lobby for satire being made illegal to avoid consequences of their mistake. lol

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– MLGS 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

This has nothing to do with model training, this is just the model deciding The Onion was the most credible result for that question. The guy who made this post on Gab is trying to sound smarter than he is.

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– SR388-SAX 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

The model probably shouldn't have been trained in such a way that it would decide that The Onion was ever a credible result.

If you rather meant "relevant result," it still shouldn't have given it as a response if it were being asked a sincere question.

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– MLGS 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

That's on whoever wrote the algorithms that decide which article to pull up for a particular phrase.

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– deleted 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0
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