10mo ago

Whoops! Google, Copilot, Perplexity push scientific racism in search results

pivot-to-ai.com

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- Between this high-profile disaster and character.ai's suicide lawsuit (which I've talked about here), it feels more and more and more like the current system's gonna end up getting torn to shreds once this bubble bursts.
  
  I thought "character.ai's suicide lawsuit" was your way of describing a stupid lawsuit that is suicidal to the company, but this is so much fucking darker, god.
  
  I wish I could agree, but we're all AI fodder. AI companies will spend us and anyone who disagrees can get fucked because money. The ownership class is going to milk this for every damn cent until they get their returns, and if that means more murder-suicides in that pursuit, well then buckle up.
not included: a few hundred words of other ranting about the pervasive race science in AI research and especially from anyone talking about "AGI". Maybe later.
@dgerard
Shouldn't this be linking directly to
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/26/whoops-google-copilot-perplexity-push-scientific-racism-in-search-results/
?
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By the way, re the subheading "It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong" -
I saw that comment made here on Mastodon in al seriousness just the other day, with a sample of the "correct" prompt that included a misprint rendering much of it meaningless.
According to the poster, he's been using it regularly with satisfying results (or "satisfactory," but that seems less plausible).
- yeah, someone on mastodon suggested that tagline but it's also a sentiment ai bros say unironically
  it also comes from "Bitcoin: It can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"
- this is a Lemmy thread, and the behavior you’re seeing is a mismatch between how Lemmy and Mastodon handle links. on our end, it’s a direct link to the pivot-to-ai url. the version of this post federated to Mastodon links to our Lemmy instance’s thread instead, presumably to drive engagement (note that that’s not my decision as an instance admin, and I’d probably have it federate differently given the option)
  
  this seems more like a Mastodon thing, considering that if I curl the post with Accept: application/activity+json it doesn't have a link to the Lemmy thread, it has the link actually embedded in the post
  I think Mastodon does this for other AP object types (like articles, e.g. if you put a link to a WriteFreely article into Mastodon it'll just show the title and a link to the original post)
  @self
  
  probably some whacky shit with how it emits the AP Post object
  it's been a while since I looked into that code but I remember it being a bit weirdly trampolined for how it pulls fields together for the final emitted object/blob

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