AI can ‘fake’ empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggests
“Computer scientists have found that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and large language models (LLMs) can inadvertently allow Nazism, sexism and racism to fester in their conversation partners.
When prompted to show empathy, these conversational agents do so in spades, even when the humans using them are self-proclaimed Nazis. What’s more, the chatbots did nothing to denounce the toxic ideology.”
AI can ‘fake’ empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing study suggests
“Computer scientists have found that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and large language models (LLMs) can inadvertently allow Nazism, sexism and racism to fester in their conversation partners.
When prompted to show empathy, these conversational agents do so in spades, even when the humans using them are self-proclaimed Nazis. What’s more, the chatbots did nothing to denounce the toxic ideology.”
“The fakes created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tell us another story, one of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East within the Orientalism movement. This fascination about the Orient and the past led certain individuals to create some fantastic stories and theories, such as those published by the writer Zecharia Stichin (1920–2010) who took the mythological battles of gods related in the authentic Babylonian Epic of Creation to be real astronomic phenomena.”
Michel, C. 2020. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day. In: Michel, C. and Friedrich, M. ed. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 25-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714333-002
“The fakes created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tell us another story, one of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East within the Orientalism movement. This fascination about the Orient and the past led certain individuals to create some fantastic stories and theories, such as those published by the writer Zecharia Stichin (1920–2010) who took the mythological battles of gods related in the authentic Babylonian Epic of Creation to be real astronomic phenomena.”
Michel, C. 2020. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day. In: Michel, C. and Friedrich, M. ed. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 25-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714333-002
Well, I just informed Threads about the fake "Fediverse" Threads account.
That's pretty much all I can do. I don't know what else to do at this point. I'm at a loss for words that it's even allowed as a username in the first place.
ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
The #Oversight Board, an outside group funded by #Meta, called on the company to extend the policy to address #altered audio as well as videos when they falsely depict people doing things.
“We agree w/the Oversight Board’s argument that our existing approach is too narrow” because it only applies to #fake speech & not altered actions, Meta VP of #Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a stmnt.