Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the... See more
https://www.nplusonemag.com/author/lisajborstgmail-com/ • Large Language Muddle
"We are f*cked." That is what @verge writer Sarah Jeong has declared after testing the new 'reimagine' feature in the Google Pixel 9.
Jeong created incredibly convincing photos in just seconds using the Pixel's camera app.
She makes the point that "no one on Earth today has ever lived in a... See more
instagram.comNot only is the system essentially hallucinating, but it appears to have no mechanism to detect, let alone communicate that it is doing so. As a much-cited 2015 paper put it, “Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled.”