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   Jer Warren (nyquildotorg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 17:21:00 JST Jer Warren

   I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to an Idiocracy (2006) scenario for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.
   
   Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.
   
   Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.
   
   Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.

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     Christopher (chrisabides@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 17:21:03 JST Christopher

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     @nyquildotorg It's largely been fixed now, but for a good while if you searched on Google "famous rock bands without bass players" you'd have auto-populated results of "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "The Who", and some other bands who, incidentally, contain some of the most iconic bass players of all time. All referenced from a fistful of AI-driven sites that fooled each other into that non-reality.

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     Bornach (bornach@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 04:52:04 JST Bornach

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     • Omnivore

     @Ralph @nyquildotorg

     I prefer the term "Automated Idiocy"

     That way we can use the same acronym

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     Omnivore (ralph@hear-me.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 04:52:05 JST Omnivore

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     @nyquildotorg

     #AI

     This exists in human-written scholarly papers as well. Citations get copied from one paper to the next without review. "Artificial Intelligence is no match for real stupidity." (everybody, ~2007)

     I do think the [Artificial Intelligence] descriptor should be replaced with [Clever Idiocy] so we truly admit the limitations of the tools.

     https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500547/