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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AI is an echo chamber. If a substantial number of sources start putting out articles saying something wrong but new, such as "extensive research by leading medical researchers shows that tea leaves cause autism in children," and a large number of popular websites agree to repeat the wrong claim, after a while, AI would repeat the same wrong claim. AI is a parrot, that fortunately is often right because what's out there on the web is often right. But AI can be fooled with a concentrated effort to train it with garbage.[/quote]
Kinda.  The thing is, though, that companies training foundational models are aware of this.  The models aren’t just indiscriminately ingesting stuff.  Microsoft tried that with Tay, which continuously learned from interactions with users.  Twitter taught it to be a Nazi misogynist within 24 hours. Now companies curate what models ingest more carefully - well, models other than Grok.   [/quote]

PP. For critical issues that can affect the society and the world, such as misleading AI into behaving like a Nazi misogynist, a racist, a right/left-wing extremist, or someone who encourages users to commit suicide, surely the companies would step in and put a stop on it. But our everyday lives is filled with a gazillion non-critical information and issues, many of which are inherently uncertain/subjective, are filled with nuances, either just happen or have yet to happen or can change over time, that AI often screws up. It's simply not feasible for companies to check everything. AI is "use it with your discretion" and that is unlikely to change anytime soon.[/quote]

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