The birth of a snowball of bullshit?!
“We may be witnessing, in real-time, the birth of a snowball of bullshit.”
“Large language models are trained on data sets that are built by scraping the internet for text, including all the toxic, silly, false, malicious things humans have written online. The finished AI models regurgitate these falsehoods as fact, and their output is spread everywhere online. Tech companies scrape the internet again, scooping up AI-written text that they use to train bigger, more convincing models, which humans can use to generate even more nonsense before it is scraped again and again, ad nauseam.
This problem—AI feeding on itself and producing increasingly polluted output—extends to images. “The internet is now forever contaminated with images made by AI,”
Fra: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/20/1065667/how-ai-generated-text-is-poisoning-the-internet/
Og eksempel på ondsindet brug, hvilket bekræfter fx Shoshana Zuboffs pointe i hendes seneste artikel, at en af problemerne med overvågningskapitalismen er, at AI feeder på private informationer, men IKKE skelner mellem ondt og godt i fx dens midler: