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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

okay you know what maybe i do want to use ddg's ai now.

we have to speak of percentages. like this moves it from a 5% yes 95% no to a 20% yes 80% no. Unfortunately, the best way to get me to do something is to make me laugh. I wish logic worked better than humor on me, but i know my levers.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

is this picture from after he blew bubba?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 8 hours ago

No this was misreported, he blew bubbles. While frothing at the mouth and dying, allegedly.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

As if rabies would have anything to do with that horrible wobbling bag of obesity!!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

rabies is the disease, scabies are the parasites. i think. i'm not sure rabies would get a choice but scabies would. my brain doesn't turn on without caffeine for another 45 minutes and i stayed up too late last night

[–] BigTurkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine Trump getting rabies, the story leaks, he denies it and all his cronies around him back up the lie, right up until he turns rabid and starts biting and attacking them. Would be a fitting ending for him.

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Animals get all rabid and starts biting stuff to spread the disease like IRL zombies, but for some reason humans just get scared of drinking water, starts shaking and then die.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

I think most of us would be ok with that outcome too

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Only if it gets caught on video.

However it finally happens I want it to either be during a public event or caught in good quality.

That video (if gory enough) could cure cancer. I usually hate got, but I would stare at that video for hours.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Still plenty would make sure to say fake or AI

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

People say everything is AI. As long as I know it's real, idc what people say.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 97 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

It’s not an hallucination, it just found search results from a better dimension

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago

It learned to huff copium.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

or maybe it's predicting the future.

[–] f1error@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

To be fair. 🎶 To. Be. Fair. 🎶 DuckDuckGo also offers NoAIDuckDuckGo. NoAIDuckDuckGo

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 42 points 19 hours ago

I wish that too, DDG.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

LET IT COOK.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 48 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 9 points 19 hours ago

LOL! We should all be so lucky!

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well I guess it's true that AI tells us what we want to hear...

Also did Duck Duck Go go stupid AI... I thought that literally was the search engine for people who are sick of googles BS.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

It's toggeable. You can switch off all LLM stuff with a button.

Wait until they change that and make it unchangable.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

That doesn't change the fact that they decided to be part of the problem.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Wait wat? I thought ddg were fully into the "No AI" train

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

No they are as annoying as everyone else, but like firefox they put forth a www.noai.ddg type version.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago

No, they offer an AI free version but otherwise are definitely into AI.

[–] alianne@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

As funny as this is (and I do find it funny), it's also concerning on a wider level. A good number of people trust these AI summaries; they shouldn't, but they do. And if it's this easy to poison the AIs, imagine how easy it is for someone with an actual agenda to mislead people in ways that aren't as fantastical and quickly spotted.

I seem to recall reading recently that a court in Germany wanted to hold Google accountable for the content of its AI summaries. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.) If companies are going to shove these models in people's faces they should absolutely be responsible for the results. If your model can't tell fact from fiction, stop publishing - and promoting - it as fact.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The case recently resolved in the plaintiff's favour. though Google intends to appeal, so it's up in the air how things go.

And if it's this easy to poison the AIs, imagine how easy it is for someone with an actual agenda to mislead people in ways that aren't as fantastical and quickly spotted.

Equally concerning is that these systems are now seeing use in a range of things. There are lawyers who use it to file suits when they shouldn't be, and a US lawmaker was recently found to be using AI to draft laws. What happens when things like that make it into the models training data, rather than just being pulled in by RAG/web tools? They'd become part of the base knowledge of all the models of that line going forward.

It's funny when it's outlandish. The question becomes what happens when it isn't? Even without an agenda, what happens when it cites an outdated/incorrect source, or assumes that someone making a joke was correct, and ends up drawing from that when filling a lawsuit/drafting a law?

[–] alianne@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Thank you for finding the link! I've no doubt Google will fight for as long as they can, but hopefully the German courts will hold their ground.

I'm far from an expert, but I feel like this is one of the limiting factors of LLMs - they have no sense of broader context. Truth vs. lie, outdated info vs. something that's old but still correct... I'm not sure there's ever going to be an LLM (at least one built in the way they are now) that will be good at actually producing correct responses. Maybe one day we'll find a new way of achieving that goal, but I suspect what we're seeing now isn't going to be it.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

And DuckDuckGo AI is exceptionally bad. Like, other AI is bad too, but DuckDuckGo's version is even behind the pack.

[–] bookmeat@fedinsfw.app 0 points 7 hours ago

An AI can dream...

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is the first good advertisement for ai... I want more ai content where it tries to tell the same bullshit as foxnews :D

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, maybe in a different context, as in a scuffed AI-slop The Onion clone haha.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

They fed the world‘s knowledge into the machine and it concluded that surely that fucker must be gone by now.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 6 points 19 hours ago

Duck.ai can tell the future? I hope

[–] BozzyBuzzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

No such luck. I switched to startpage. Better results, and no ai bs

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ok who wrote that fic and where in AO3 can we read it? DDG has to had gotten the info from somewhere...

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's from a fake website from a fake news channel that was actually a UHF channel that closed shop 50 years ago

https://wkna49.com/news/technology-companies-face-scrutiny-over-data-accuracy-following-jd-vance-tragedy