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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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So you have a product that you've made into a system for getting answers. And then you couldn't be bothered to try and sanitize training data enough to get your answer system's new headline feature from spreading blatantly incorrect information? If it doesn't work, maybe don't ship it.
I think the problem they are facing is data quantity. Sanitizing possibly terabytes of text data is a humongous task. They have probably used an AI to do the cleanup but the more suble errors have passed through the filter.
Yeah, the problem is how to sanitise effectively. You've gotta be able to find a way to automatically strip out "bad" things from your training data (via an "oracle"). But if you already had that oracle, you could just slap it on your final product (e.g. Search) and make all the "bad" things disappear before they hit the user (via some sort of filter).
I'm pretty sure google's final solution will be using mechanical turks
The worst part is they don't seem to realize their responsibility in this as the leading search engine that the majority of the world uses. They seem to have the mindset "our answers are potentially dangerous for users but it is ok we have an army of lawyers"
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