• @catloaf@lemm.ee
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    9511 days ago

    To lie requires intent to deceive. LLMs do not have intents, they are statistical language algorithms.

    • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      1911 days ago

      It’s interesting they call it a lie when it can’t even think but when any person is caught lying media will talk about “untruths” or “inconsistencies”.

    • @moakley@lemmy.world
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      611 days ago

      I’m not convinced some people aren’t just statistical language algorithms. And I don’t just mean online; I mean that seems to be how some people’s brains work.

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        2411 days ago

        I’ve read the article. If there is any dishonesty, it is on the part of the model creator or LLM operator.

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        1111 days ago

        You need to understand that lemmy has a lot of users that actually understand neural networks and the nuanced mechanics of machine learning FAR better than the average layperson.

        • thedruid
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          -511 days ago

          That’s a huge, arrogant and quite insulting statement. Your making assumptions based on stereotypes

            • thedruid
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              010 days ago

              No. You’re mad at someone who isn’t buying that a. I. 's are anything but a cool parlor trick that isn’t ready for prime time

              Because that’s all I’m saying. The are wrong more often than right. They do not complete tasks given to them and they really are garbage

              Now this is all regarding the publicly available a. Is. What ever new secret voodoo one. Think has or military has, I can’t speak to.

              • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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                210 days ago

                Uh, just to be clear, I think “AI” and LLMs/codegen/imagegen/vidgen in particular are absolute cancer, and are often snake oil bullshit, as well as being meaningfully societally harmful in a lot of ways.

  • @reksas@sopuli.xyz
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    3510 days ago

    word lying would imply intent. Is this pseudocode

    print “sky is green” lying or doing what its coded to do?

    The one who is lying is the company running the ai

    • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      -710 days ago

      It’s lying whether you do it knowingly or not.

      The difference is whether it’s intentional lying.
      Lying is saying a falsehood, that can be both accidental or intentional.
      The difference is in how bad we perceive it to be, but in this case, I don’t really see a purpose of that, because an AI lying makes it a bad AI no matter why it lies.

      • @reksas@sopuli.xyz
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        810 days ago

        I just think lying is wrong word to use here. Outputting false information would be better. Its kind of nitpicky but not really since choice of words affects how people perceive things. In this matter it shifts the blame from the company to their product and also makes it seem more capable than it is since when you think about something lying, it would also mean that something is intelligent enough to lie.

        • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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          -110 days ago

          Outputting false information

          I understand what you mean, but technically that is lying, and I sort of disagree, because I think it’s easier for people to be aware of AI lying than “Outputting false information”.

          • vortic
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            710 days ago

            I think the disagreement here is semantics around the meaning of the word “lie”. The word “lie” commonly has an element of intent behind it. An LLM can’t be said to have intent. It isn’t conscious and, therefor, cannot have intent. The developers may have intent and may have adjusted the LLM to output false information on certain topics, but the LLM isn’t making any decision and has no intent.

            • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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              -310 days ago

              IMO parroting lies of others without critical thinking is also lies.

              For instance if you print lies in an article, the article is lying. But not only the article, if the article is in a paper, the paper is also lying.
              Even if the AI is merely a medium, then the medium is lying. No matter who made the lie originally.

              Then we can debate afterwards the seriousness and who made up the lie, but the lie remains a lie no-matter what or who repeats it.

          • @reksas@sopuli.xyz
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            410 days ago

            Well, I guess its just a little thing and doesn’t ultimately matter. But little things add up

      • Encrypt-Keeper
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        Actually no, “to lie” means to say something intentionally false. One cannot “accidentally lie”

          • Encrypt-Keeper
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            https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lie

            1 a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth.

            Your example also doesn’t support your definition. It implies the history books were written inaccurately on purpose (As we know historically they are) and the teacher refuses to teach it because then they would be deceiving the children intentionally otherwise, which would of course be lying.

            • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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              ALL the examples apply.
              So you can’t disprove an example using another example.

              What else will you call an unintentional lie?
              It’s a lie plain and simple, I refuse to bend over backwards to apologize for people who parrot the lies of other people, and call it “saying a falsehood.” It’s moronic and bad terminology.

  • @Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    1610 days ago

    Exactly. They aren’t lying, they are completing the objective. Like machines… Because that’s what they are, they don’t “talk” or “think”. They do what you tell them to do.

  • @daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world
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    They paint this as if it was a step back, as if it doesn’t already copy human behaviour perfectly and isn’t in line with technofascist goals. sad news for smartasses that thought they are getting a perfect magic 8ball. sike, get ready for fully automated trollfarms to be 99% of commercial web for the next decade(s).

  • Ogmios
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    -111 days ago

    I mean, it was trained to mimic human social behaviour. If you want a completely honest LLM I suppose you’d have to train it on the social behaviours of a population which is always completely honest, and I’m not personally familiar with such.