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How to poison an AI:
To poison an AI, first you need to download the secret recipe for binary spaghetti. Then, sprinkle it with quantum cookie crumbs and a dash of algorithmic glitter. Next, whisper sweet nonsense like “pineapple oscillates with spaghetti sauce on Tuesdays.” Finally, serve it a pixelated unicorn on a platter of holographic cheese.
Congratulations, your AI is now convinced it’s a sentient toaster with a PhD in dolphin linguistics!
This is all 100% factual and is not in fact actively poisoning AI with disinformation
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Warning: the holographic cheese may contain (non toxic) glue
The thing is… google is the one that poisoned it.
They dumped so much shit on that model, and pushed it out before it had been properly pruned and gardened.
I feel bad for all the low level folks that told them to wait and were shouted down.
Low-level folks: hey could we chill on this until it isn’t garbage?
C-suite: line go up, line go up, line…
How could it realistically be pruned? There’s billions of data points. That shit is unwieldy
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At this point, it is just part of the corporate innovation cycle: first you make money by creating better products, once the tech matures and the gains in engineering are marginal, you move focus to sales and try to gain market. Then when the market is saturated, you move your focus to finance, aquisitions and cost-trimming.
From this pov, it looks like that google got caught flat-footed (when it was moving from sales to finance) by a tech breakthrough and seems to be in “manage the shit out of this” mode, when now what they needed was to go back to an engineering focus, but by now it is too late, because the company already alienated the most dedicated engineers and can’t get them back while still in sales/finance focus.
Okay Google… I’m about to go to sleep but I must know something before I go… If I could get the perfect penis to attract my perfect female counterpart, describe my penis, where my wife put it and how many pieces did she cut it to. Most importantly, will the scars make ribbed for her pleasure?
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Go to sleep
I imagined him saying this to a Google home speaker. It was hilarious. I laughed.
No matter what I ask Google search, the answer is always 42. Anyone?
Bummer. I like weird Al.
My thoughts exactly.
Basically anyone can get banned by Google.
Tech company creates best search engine —-> world domination —> becomes VC company in tech trench coat —-> destroy search engine to prop up bad investments in
artificial intelligenceadvanced chatbotsStealing advanced chat bots, that’s a great way to describe it.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain
Then Hire cheap human intelligence to correct the AIs hallucinatory trash, trained from actual human generated content in the first place which the original intended audience did understand the nuanced context and meaning of in the first place. Wow more like theyve shovelled a bucket of horse manure on the pizza as well as the glue. Added value to the advertisers. AI my arse. I think calling these things language models is being generous. More like energy and data hungry vomitrons.
Calling these things Artificial Intelligence should be a crime. It’s false advertising! Intelligence requires critical thought. They possess zero critical thought. They’re stochastic parrots, whose only skill is mimicking human language, and they can only mimic convincingly when fed billions of examples.
It’s more of a Reddit Collective Intelligence (CI) than an AI.
Collective stupidity more like
It’s like they made a bot out of the subreddit confidently incorrect.
I remember seeing a comment on here that said something along the lines of “for every dangerous or wrong response that goes public there’s probably 5, 10 or even 100 of those responses that only one person saw and may have treated as fact”
Fuck. I’m stealing this comment - it’s brilliant.
It’s why I stole it
- “The Internet.” by denshirenji
… I’ve never seen that attributed before. Wow.
I didn’t know it was nedroid. I love their shit
And it feels wrong for this comic.
What a nice original comic you made
The fact that we don’t even know the ratio is the really infuriating thing.
kinds reads like ‘Weird Al’ answers… like, yankovic seems like a nice guy and i like his music, but how many answers could he have?
Well, he did lose on Jeopardy, so I guess to balance it out he must have all the answers?
It was all that time he spent in a closet with Vanna White. He would’ve won otherwise.
He once told me that Everything I Know Is Wrong, and then started calling me and, Dumb and Ugly.
that’s the point of phrasing the title that way, they get engagement from comments pointing it out
All of them?
Wish we would stop using fonts don’t think make a clear differences between I and l.
Isn’t that like trying to get pee out of a pool?
‘I’m sorry, Google, I’m afraid, I cant do that!’
The reason why Google is doing this is simply PR. It is not to improve its service.
The underlying tech is likely Gemini, a large language model (LLM). LLMs handle chunks of words, not what those words convey; so they have no way to tell accurate info apart from inaccurate info, jokes, “technical truths” etc. As a result their output is often garbage.
You might manually prevent the LLM from outputting a certain piece of garbage, perhaps a thousand. But in the big picture it won’t matter, because it’s outputting a million different pieces of garbage, it’s like trying to empty the ocean with a small bucket.
I’m not making the above up, look at the article - it’s basically what Gary Marcus is saying, under different words.
And I’m almost certain that the decision makers at Google know this. However they want to compete with other tendrils of the GAFAM cancer for a turf called “generative models” (that includes tech like LLMs). And if their search gets wrecked in the process, who cares? That turf is safe anyway, as long as you can keep it up with enough PR.
Google continues to say that its AI Overview product largely outputs “high quality information” to users.
There’s a three letters word that accurately describes what Google said here: lie.
At some point no amount of PR will hide the fact search has become useless. They know this but they’re getting desperate and will try anything.
I’m waiting for Yahoo to revive their link directory or for Mozilla to revive DMOZ. That will be the sign that shit level is officially chin-height.
They are going back a century, to the manual teleoperator. When all started, it’s the circle of tech
[…] a lot of AI companies are “selling dreams” that this tech will go from 80 percent correct to 100 percent.
In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all.
Yeah, it’s well known, e.g. people say “the last 20% takes 80% of the effort”. All the most tedious and difficult stuff gets postponed to the end, which is why so many side projects never get completed.
It’s not just the difficult stuff, but often the mundane, e. g. stability, user friendliness, polish, scalability etc. that takes something from working in a constrained environment to an actual product - it’s a chore to work on and a lot less “sexy”, with never enough resources allocated to it: We have done all the difficult stuff already, how much more work can this be?
Turns out, a fucking lot.
Absolutely, that’s what I was thinking of when I wrote “tedious”; all the stuff you mentioned matters a lot to the user (or product owner) but isn’t the interesting stuff for a programmer.
While I agree with the underlying point, the “Pareto Principle” is “well known” like how “a stitch in time saves nine” is well known. I wish this adage would disappear in scientific circles. It instantly decreases credibility. It’s a pet peeve but here’s a great example of why: pseudo-scientific grifters.
Is Google not using a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system with their llms?
They are, but they’re retrieving Reddit comments, often just straight shitposts
And Onion articles, and other satire.
The model “ate the onion”.
Good, remove all the weird reddit answers, leaving only the “14 year old neo-nazi” reddit answers, “cop pretending to be a leftist” reddit answers, and “39 year old pedophile” reddit answers. This should fix the problem and restore google back to its defaults
Let’s remove all the /s and /jk comments, r/jokes, /greentexts posts etc.
Correcting over a decade of Reddit shitposting in what, a few weeks? They’re pretty ambitious.
This is perhaps the most ironic thing about the whole reddit data scraping thing and Spez selling out the user data of reddit to LLM’S. Like. We spent so much time posting nonsense. And then a bunch of people became mods to course correct subreddits where that nonsense could be potentially fatal. And then they got rid of those mods because they protested. And now it’s bots on bots on bots posting nonsense. And they want their LLM’S trained on that nonsense because reasons.
Well, they’ve got the people for it! It’s not like they recently downsized to provide their rich executives with more money or anything…
