In relayed news, a recent study that concluded I am, not just the smartest person in the universe but also the smartest that has every been or will ever be.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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I recently did a AI study that concluded that I am not only the cutest catgirl on lemmy but deserve free unlimited hrt :3
Well, a broken clock is right twice a day.
Your typos and use of commas betrays you, fake study
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"the idea is tantalizing"
No the fuck it isn't, and that's not even a Fuck AI type opinion just basic fucking scientific principles
Lying, cheating, stealing, exploitation and propaganda all sound "tantalizing" when you're a criminally corrupt sociopath.
We're just lucky capitalism doesn't reward sociopaths with wealth and power /s
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A recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.
Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions.
The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.
Silicon sampling, has to be dumbest thing I've heard of in a while.
it's worse than you probably think… this is the claim the garbage company Axios hired for this:
Our simulations go beyond predicting outcomes — they shape them.
So it's basically, tell me what you want the survey results to be
Its like random sampling... but cheaper, and completely made up!
Right, like, ... I can imagine how some of the sociopathic fools who tend to find themselves in executive positions could be fooled into thinking this was a sensible cost-saving measure... But anyone who's capable of an ounce of reasoning, or who has any basic understanding of generative AI or statistics, shouldn't need more than a few seconds to realize why this could not ever provide output that would reliably emulate a survey of actual humans.
They were so busy thinking about the fact that they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. How much of an idiot can you be?
I dont know the Axis was ever the most trustworthy source out there but if they're doing this then less trustworthy sources are also doing it.
Axios updated the story:
Editor's note: This story has been updated to note that Aaru is an AI simulation research firm.
But still stands by their claim:
New findings by Aaru, an AI simulation research firm, for Heartland Forward show that a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses
What kind of bullshit "fact checking" is this?
"New findings by Smegma, an Xbox chatroom research firm, show that your mother is a woman of loose morals who has had sexual intercourse with dozens of Xbox gamers."
Pretty much this
Also, expect much more of this, if not the vast majority of opinion polls to be like this
wtf...
It's ironic that the survey companies, who I thought wanted to avoid noise and bullshit, would pay for noise and bullshit that any RNG could fill.
Yes, but how much of the training data is synthetic data? Because I expect this startup has no idea. Microsoft uses ML to crawl files on OneDrive to build aggregate models of document types, then use that for LLM training.
It's just all slop all the way down, huh? Just a fuzzy picture of a fuzzy picture hit with the "sharpen" filter 20 times?
Okay, that means that per immediately I'll never trust axios as a source again
I instantly thought "fuck no, this can't be true", then read the AI part.
Wtf
What an interesting but absolutely horrible idea.
I'm still convinced axios made up the "truck owners don't use their shit right" back in 2018 and it caused 75% of the internet hate for trucks. To this day after asking repeatedly I still have not found a single lock of evidence outside one of their hit pieces.
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