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You asked a search engine for information from the internet in its early stages and got Frankensteined results from the Internet. That was its purpose was it not? Obviously the more info it scrapes the more info it will go off of.. but yeah it is still just scraped data, not even particularly from reliable sources. The language models job is to make sentences out of information it has. It doesn't do anything intelligent to disect the information.
A good example is many AI (programs) can draw you a leopard. If you ask the program to then draw an arrow to its tail... It doesn't know what a tail is so it will draw a random arrow that would point to where a tail would be on a stock image, not even the one it "drew"
What it knows "this entity is a leopard". We want it to know much more than that. We want the program to see "draw a leopard" and then it draw: 2 eyes: run the eye operation - which then says draw shapes, for items like retinas, colors, blood vessels etc and document all of that data while creating each hair and skin blotch. Then be able to comprehend what all of the items are and do, so when asked a question or given a task it can perform such actions..
But we haven't programmed it to do so, and thus it can't, because it doesn't think to learn, it just aggregates data and searches it. It can't compile the data and recycle itself back to the original operation, as that would be pretty intelligent.
Yeah all that is true, and smart people understand it’s limitations, especially the nerds (no offense) that closely follow tech. But for the general public that’s being fed all this hype about AI? Especially school kids? Oh god. This is going to lead to some bad outcomes where the entire population is going to further dumb itself down and potentially end in catastrophe and a collapse of knowledge.
Yeah, the main issues I've seen stem from the data being aggregated doesn't have ways to limit it from aggregating data from itself (or other models). So take in data, spit out the same data, take in that data, and spit out more. If it was wrong at any point in time it continues to spit out data potentially more incorrect and growing.
Also data sources get hurt. So if you go to a site that has decent information they usually profit via ads. Eventually that data that was scraped from there is being regurgitated and less people go to the site itself, less views less revenue. Some sites will die out do to monetary incentives being gone and costs the same. Meaning new information is not published there and the old data is being spit out with some percentage of error with no source to back check that information on.
AI based enshittificafion!