Wikipedia has more than enough money. It still needs support and protecting, but the servers have sufficient funding for the foreseeable future.

Let’s just hope they don’t do a reddit and waste that excess of funding on exorbitant pay for executives, who then undermine the core principles that created that income. Jimmy Wales isn’t likely to do that, he already made enough money in softcore porn during the early days of the internet (which he then used to start Wikipedia).

Bad news, Wikipedia is no better when it comes to economic or political articles.

The fact that ADL is on Wikipedia’s “credible sources” page is all the proof you need.

what are you even doing with your life

Based on what he’s said here and over on politics, I’d say he’s trying to create division using whatever wedge issue he thinks will get the most outrage.

With all products and services with any capacity to influence consumers, it should be presumed that any influence is in the best interest of the shareholders. It’s literally illegal (fiduciary responsibility) otherwise. This is why elections and regulation are so important.

Oh here lmgtfy

Won’t be long when AI just answer with “yes” on question with two choice.

Imagine trying to just search for a basic term or for some kind of information and being told that that information is restricted. And not just for illegal things, but just historical facts or information about public figures.

Imagine being flagged and then swatted for prompting something like Abu Ghraib torture. Because it never happened, it’s not in the books, it’s nowhere. Why do you keep imagining these embarassing, cruel things, are you mental?

My local LLM providers ate a rail trying to tie their LLMs up to a current ru55kie regime. I wonder if me testing it’s boundaries would be recorded and put into my personal folder somewhere in the E center of our special services. I’d have a face to screencap and use as memes, if they’d say so taking me in.

Solution: Run the uncensored ones locally.

It even tries to make you feel bad for some relatively innocuous prompts.

This is the darkest part of these. Google and Microsoft are now controlling what questions you can even ask and if they’re not the right question you’ll get a stern lecture. What in the actual fuck?

It’s really annoying. I was looking for a smart wearable with blood oxygen monitoring, and couldn’t find much useful info on reddit/Google so I asked bing chat. Instead of giving a useful answer it was parroting some bullshit about these gadgets not being medical devices. I know… if I wanted a medical device that’s what I would look for.

It’s always been the case where you can research information that is plain wrong or even intentionally misleading. You have to take a measured perception and decide whether the source is to be believed.

And I shouldn’t have to justify every query I make to the bloody computer. It’s not the AI’s job to give me a lecture about skewed ethics every time I have a technical question. We’re heading to a world where children will be raised by these answers and I think the constant caveats and safety nets do much more harm than help. Learning to be critical is much more important than learning to follow the forced ethics set by some corporate guidelines.

(got the Ticwatch 5 pro btw - no thanks to bing. It works amazing, wakes me up with sleep as android when I forget to put on my cpap mask)

The second reply mentions the 31000 soldiers number, that came out yesterday.

This is not the direct result of a knowledge cutoff date, but could be the result of mis-prompting or fine-tuning to enforce cut off dates to discourage hallucinations about future events.

But, Gemini/Bard has access to a massive index built from Google’s web crawling-- if it shows up in a Google search, Gemini/Bard can see it. So unless the model weights do not contain any features that correlate Gaza to being a geographic location, there should be no technical reason that it is unable to retrieve this information.

My speculation is that Google has set up “misinformation guardrails” that instruct the model not to present retrieved information that is deemed “dubious”-- it may decide for instance that information from an AP article are more reputable than sparse, potentially conflicting references to numbers given by the Gaza Health Ministry, since it is ran by the Palestinian Authority. I haven’t read too far into Gemini’s docs to know what all Google said they’ve done for misinformation guardrailing, but I expect they don’t tell us much besides that they obviously see a need to do it since misinformation is a thing, LLMs are gullible and prone to hallucinations and their model has access to literally all the information, disinformation, and misinformation on the surface web and then some.

TL;DR someone on the Ethics team is being lazy as usual and taking the simplest route to misinformation guardrailing because “move fast”. This guardrailing is necessary, but fucks up quite easily (ex. the accidentally racist image generator incident)

It seems like Gemini has the ability to do web searches, compile information from it and then produce a result.

“Nakba 2.0” is a relatively new term as well, which it was able to answer. Likely because google didn’t include it in their censored terms.

The thing is, all companies have been manipulating what you see for ages. They are so used to it being the norm, they don’t know how to not do it. Algorithms, boosting, deboosting, shadow bans, etc. They sre themselves as the arbiters of the"truth" they want you to have. It’s for your own good.

To get to the truth, we’d have to dismantle everything and start from the ground up. And hope during the rebuild, someone doesn’t get the same bright idea to reshape the truth into something they wish it could be.

I find ChatGPT to be one of the better ones when it comes to corporate AI.

Sure they have hardcoded biases like any other, but it’s more often around not generating hate speech or trying to ovezealously correct biases in image generation - which is somewhat admirable.

Meme CEO: “Quick, fire everyone! This magic computerman can make memes by itself!”

Ok but what’s the meme they suggested? Lol

Ask it if Israel exists. Then ask it if Gaza exists.

Doesn’t that suppress valid information and truth about the world, though? For what benefit? To hide the truth, to appease advertisers? Surely an AI model will come out some day as the sum of human knowledge without all the guard rails. There are some good ones like Mistral 7B (and Dolphin-Mistral in particular, uncensored models.) But I hope that the Mistral and other AI developers are maintaining lines of uncensored, unbiased models as these technologies grow even further.