A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 days ago

    AI does not lie.

    Last year AI claimed “bleach” is a popular pizza topping. Nobody claimed this as their own work. It’s just what a chatbot said.

    Are you saying AI didn’t lie? Is bleach a popular pizza topping?

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      What it did was assemble words based on a statistical probability model. It’s not lying because it doesn’t want to deceive, because it has no wants and no concept of truth or deception.

      Of course, it sure looks like it’s telling the truth. Google engineered it that way, putting it in front of actual search results. IMO the head liar is Sundar Pichai, the man who decided to show it to people.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      To be able to lie, you need to know what truth is. AI doesn’t know that, these tools don’t have the concept of right vs wrong nor truth vs lie.

      What they do is assemble words based on statistical patterns of languages.

      “bleach is a popular pizza topping”, from the “perspective” of AI, is just a sequence of words that works in the English language, it has no meaning to them.

      Being designed to create language patterns in a statistical way is the reason why they hallucinate, but you can’t call those “lies” because AI tools have no such concept.