Whoops! Google, Copilot, Perplexity push racist propaganda in AI search results
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Social media these days features a whole lot of weird race and IQ graphs to support racist conspiracy theories. This stuff has long been funded and promoted by rich racists. Angela Saini’s excellen…
  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m relatively confident that AI represents the formalization of the perspective adhered to by those who run the economy.

    It does provide context for why so many are throwing so much money at it, when experts know they’re not going to get a monetary return.

    It could be that they’re just genuinely huge suckers. But I’m inclined to wonder if there’s more sinister motives in play.

    • Ogmios@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Honestly, I think it’s less sinister, and more that they legitimately believed that was how the human mind actually worked, so “copying” that blueprint with machines was supposed to result in a reasonable facsimile of a human. Because of the failure, they have to rethink their entire strategy right from the start, which means our entire economic and political system needs to be reimagined.