Divide and conquer

Remember when they used to say if you didn’t pay for the product it was because you were the product? Now-a-days you get to pay to be the product.

Only one reason I can think that Anthropic would invest money into a project like this.

They must be doing this so activists can connect with each other and unify for the same cause. Strength in awareness and numbers. Anthropic must be a company for the people.

Why doesn’t Microsoft just use AI to fix their shit products? I thought AI was the future and Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest shareholder so this should be a slam dunk.

Yes. Carrot Top (Scott Thompson) is alive and still performing. He is 61 years old and currently has a long-running residency at the Luxor in Las Vegas.

Don’t worry Bill, world war 3 will wipe everyone out before that happens.

That’s my bad. You were right. You should have never eaten that mushroom. Would you like to know how much time you have left?

Just a little gamer jargon. Everyone knows what’s up

That’s crazy. I believe I was using ChatGPT one time to ask about authoritarianism and other political questions. When I exited the chat, none of it was in my chat history. I figured I must have asked about something ChatGPT didn’t like because it always saves my chats. Just to be sure I did it again with other politically related questions and it did not save the chat again. Certain things are off limits I guess.

Hopefully we can agree to disagree here. If users can train their AI to answer like certain people, why can’t it be trained to respond with certain perspectives or be more inclined to answer a certain way? There is no regulation agency to stop someone from doing that.

Took this from ChatGPT when I asked it about it

The important distinction is “trained to believe” versus “configured to answer as though it believes.” A model doesn’t necessarily have a private belief system. You can make two instances of essentially the same underlying model produce substantially different answers by changing their instructions, training data, reward criteria, or information sources.

For example, you could create three AI systems and give all three the question:

“Should the government provide universal healthcare?”

One could be optimized around libertarian principles, another around social-democratic principles, and another instructed to provide a politically neutral analysis. They could all know essentially the same facts while reaching different conclusions because they’re being asked to evaluate those facts using different frameworks.

There is also a more subtle issue: belief-curated AI doesn’t have to contain obvious propaganda. Selection of which facts to emphasize, which uncertainties to mention, which counterarguments to steelman, and even what questions it considers relevant can systematically push users toward a particular worldview.

This is due to Hallucinations and the training AI had.

I used Google Gemini for a while and got really frustrated over this exact issue. I gave it one more try to see if it could follow simple orders.

Gemini was like “ok I will follow direct orders going forward”. I was like “okay starting this moment do not respond to anything I say in this chat” and Gemini was like “okay done” and I was like “you failed. Why did you ignore my instructions and respond to me?” Basically it told me that due to its training it was ‘programmed’ to ignore certain prompts.

This is what is dangerous about AI. Similar to social media and Google, AI can be used to persuade public opinion to match those who train AI. AI will be way more efficient persuading opinion that Google and social media because it knows you better than those. It spits out information as if it’s facts.

This is the type of thing I experience every time I need to google something now-a-days. Welcome to the new world DuckDuckGo.

True. Probably because it brings them back to easier possibly happier times.

Today I told copilot it knows nothing and is worthless. I told it from now on, every time I send a prompt for in a new conversation, copilot needs to remind me me it doesn’t know anything, isn’t helpful and wastes a bunch of my time.

It responded saying it won’t do that because it’s not true. It’s not going to role play spreading incorrect information.

I reminded copilot how it always gives me wrong information more than correct information such as how it gave me a solution that “works 100% of the time guaranteed” but didn’t work earlier that day.

Copilot backpedaled and still refused to tell me it’s usually wrong and a waste of time. We eventually agreed for it to remind me it normally isn’t useful and is a waste of time when I am sending it a prompt to start a new conversation.

I told it I don’t believe it will actually do that but we will see. When I used it later that day on a new convo, it remembered to keep prompts brief but ‘forgot’ to remind me what we agreed on earlier.

I told copilot it’s like the modern day Microsoft help Paperclip. I hate copilot.

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