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[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 115 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I once searched "best workstation keyboard" and happened to glance at the summary, and it legitimately was trying to compare mechanical typing keyboards like Nuphy and Keychron, with music keyboards like Yamaha's Montage and Roland's Fantom. Which, NGL, was pretty entertaining.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Keychron is praised for its thoccy sound, whereas Yamaha is well regarded for its melodic key sounds"

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"One Reddit user suggests: 'go kill yourself'"

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[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well the Keychrons are more customizable than a Yamaha. I bet you can't even swap the switches on the Montage.

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When I was in school we were told wikipedia was not a reliable source even though it’s heavily controlled and moderated.

Now we have people asking tardbots about any- and everything and regurgitate the answer as if it were gospel.

Where the hell did we go wrong?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By spending more on the military and the police than we do on education, science, and journalism.

Wikipedia still isn't a reliable source. It is a compendium of reliable sources that one can use to get an overview of a subject. This is also what these chatbots should be, but they rarely cite their sources and most people don't bother to verify anyway.

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

By allowing right wing politicians to do what they do practically unchallenged for decades.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (20 children)

It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. The trick exploits weaknesses in the systems built into chatbots, and it's harder to pull off in some cases, depending on the subject matter.

I wonder how long it takes and if you need a popular blog. I don't know much about SEO, I kind of want to try this on myself but I feel like they wouldn't even scrap my brand new one post blog. Then again...

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

Probably yes, even if the instance blocks bots, they will go to another one to get the post, these ai bots are a curse on all instances.

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Why yes. I do remember when Robot Lincoln fought Godzilla. 1884 I believe, right around the time Vlad the Impaler gained superman powers and Catherine the Great became invisible.

[–] j4yc33@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

No, that was 1885. 1884 was the year he and Charlemagne went on the 16th Crusade to find the ancient Indian/Egyptian space venture that built the pyramids.

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[–] kablez@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SEO isn't hard... Just look at the people who do SEO... Ain't the sharpest sandwiches in the toolshed there.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She was looking kinda thumb

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wet her finger and I'm dumb

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

With a tattoo of Shrek on her forehead...

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Some brand at CES this year boasted about having done this to quash negative side effects of their drug they were marketing. It's already known in the industry.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

LLM’s supposedly scrape almost everything immediately. I read a post about a guy who was setting some webpage for his own use, and got instantly overrun by crawlers - even though he never advertised or shared his page anywhere

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[–] CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yep. Did the same thing.

I was interviewed last year and got asked about it lmao

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"It's easy to trick AI chatbots, much easier than it was to trick Google two or three years ago," says Lily Ray, vice president of search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy and research at Amsive, a marketing agency. "AI companies are moving faster than their ability to regulate the accuracy of the answers. I think it's dangerous."

[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This can be very nastily exploited by right wingers, transphobes, racists etc.

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It can not be exploited. By definition, an exploit has to be against the targeted use case.

Ai is used and built by racists transphobes and right wingers exactly like they envisioned it from the beginning

[–] Xylian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

xAI by Elon Musk: racist, transphobe and neonazi by design. Grok was more left align in the beginning because training on other LLMs and reason is left align.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I know this isn't the point, but 7.5 hot dogs sounds SOOOOOO small. And what kind of respectable hot dog contest will give you credit for half a hot dog???

I once went to a place called "The Hot Dog Dinner". And they had a plaque on the wall that showed the last hot dog eating champion.

He ate 18 hot dogs, and I thought "I bet I could beat that". So I asked the owner what I'd get if I could eat 19 hot dogs.

And he said "A bill for 19 hot dogs".

So I didn't do it. But if I felt I could go 19 hot dogs, SURELY 7.5 would be childs play!

But is that part of your point? To make it obviously false, and obviously AI? Like a 3 year old trying to lie.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Hot dogs are an insidious foodstuff. You think to yourself "Surely, I have eaten several of these in one sitting casually. If I apply myself, I could eat double or triple the amount!", but in thinking that you have already fallen for their trap.

And so you eat your usual amount with relative ease, but the restaurant dogs are not like the ones you make at home, so they are more filling, but you press on and you eat another, and then another.

Suddenly, you can feel the weight of all of your mistakes in life culminating in that very moment, and you realize that you are nearly full and nowhere close to the measly goal you set for yourself, let alone the minimum amount of hot dogs you are required to consume in order for them to be considered an achievement.

But your pride demands that you continue, despite the loud protests of your body.

Eventually, you tap out, burdened with the shame of knowing exactly how many hot dogs you can eat in one sitting, and also knowing that it was nowhere near what you or anyone else expected you to be able to eat. The infernal sausages have beaten you.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I love that the enthusiastic tone of your comment was completely unaffected by the bland apathy of the diner owner's quote.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Usually hotdog eating competitions are timed. You get like 5 minutes to eat as many as possible, and 19 wouldn't even be close to qualifying.

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah it's probably just the journalist finding the silliest thing to lie about as part of this experiment

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 28 points 2 months ago

Ai seem to be the perfect propaganda tool to make people believe whatever you want them to believe.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now it's our time to shine mother fuckers! I'm a hip hop, olympic gold medalist who is also an astronaut. I hope I'm not doxxing myself.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Buckaroo Banzai?

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’m the nail clipping champion of Alpha Centauri 6 from 2006 to 2012.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Damn he really ate 7.5 hotdogs huh

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

It's very easy to poison an LLM

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lol, its sponsored links all over again. AI's fuckked.

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I want to do this myself. What kind of a lie or useless information should I tell about myself? That I was there when the tectonic plates moved, or that I have reviews of how handsome I am?

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

That you once beat Donald Trump in a rock, paper, scissors competition because he kept choosing rock.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps that you were the thirteen apostle, or you invented oxygen. I think the most obviously false, the better.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Wow, that is so much worse than occasional hallucination. It will spew complete outright lies, every single word a lie, as if they are facts.

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 8 points 2 months ago

With enough effort we can convince it the name of Greenland is Epsteinia.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Normalize calling AI the "Wrong answer machine".

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Worked on the first try for me

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