I have said it before and I’ll say it again. AI is no match for your human stupidity, you might as well outrun it xD
That isn’t the whole point of this post but I still want to share something important about it.
So, a lot of AI models are being accused for being inaccurate, biased and insensitive.
But, dig a little deeper, where is the issue stemming from?
Let’s look at the case study of Microsoft 2016:
Tay was a chatbot that was originally released by Microsoft Corporation as a Twitter bot on March 23, 2016.
It caused subsequent controversy when the bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, causing Microsoft to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch.
The bot was named “Tay” as an acronym for “thinking about you”. Although Microsoft initially released few details about the bot, sources mentioned that it was similar to or based on Xiaoice, a similar Microsoft project in China. Ars Technica reported that, since late 2014 Xiaoice had had “more than 40 million conversations apparently without major incident”. Tay was designed to mimic the language patterns of a 19-year-old American girl, and to learn from interacting with human users of Twitter.
This led to some unfortunate consequences with Tay being “taught” to tweet like a Nazi sympathiser, racist and supporter of genocide, among other things.
Which, if you think about, led to obvious issues.
Now, the reason why I mention this is because Open AI’s ChatGPT faced a similar backlash.
Notice some patterns?
AI learns from humans and those who it interacts with, so, if you’re going to feed it incorrect and biased information, down the lane, it is going to give you incorrect information.
An example of it was I was talking to pi.ai and discussing my plot of The Ellyrium Scepter and it told me that “The Handmaid’s Tale” was by Ursula K. Le Guinn and I believed it, until I was put in a place where I had to double check and found out its by Margaret Atwood. Talk about inaccuracies that make you want to scratch your nail against the wall.
Short Advice: Please double check your information with multiple sources before you confirm something.
Long Advice: The same as above but with the addition that “In today’s world where knowledge is accessible at the tip of the fingers, the wise isn’t the one who knows more information, the wise is the one that knows the right information.”
I think this is the second last post and the last will be from author’s guild. I’ll post it when I can.
Any healthy discussions around the topic are welcome in the comments!
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This is going to be the place where I experiment sharing about “A Human’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Toasts” and see how things go. If it works out, this will be the perfect archive for anyone who wants to learn about how to detect AI content, that is written by actual humans. I’m not against the use of AI in ethical ways, I’m against it stealing our creativity and jest. Besides, who else could come up with a joke about being a hallway menace except a human who hasn’t had sleep in three days?
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This is a guidebook like never before! ✨
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