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Re:Bard uses a Hacker News comment as single source to say t... by ChatGTP on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:59AM (#35259293)
This is why I believe these bots should never be taken too seriously, at least until there is a lot more transparency around their sources of information. Until there are bots which are trained on highly verifiable sources of information that's open sourced.

I don't think it's wise to just "trust a doctor" but can you imagine the influence of such a system. Imagine if the wrong person becomes the CEO of OpenAI and people are using it for medical advice, all of a sudden it starts recommending people take opiate based medication for many, many ailments? We have this with doctors today, who would be exposed to a lot more accountability than a mega-corp with access to massive legal teams / robots.

I see this as actually being a real existential risk to large swathes of the populace.

I hate to say it, but I'd already be taking every single thing returned with a grain of salt, and probably doing that forever.

Re:Bard uses a Hacker News comment as single source to say t... by RugnirViking on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:06AM (#35259808)
> at least until there is a lot more transparency around their sources of information.

? doesn't this story include the ai giving the exact source it got the information right as it says the untrue info

There are a lot of things to critisise about hallucinating ai but this one literally said where it got the info

Re:Bard uses a Hacker News comment as single source to say t... by ChatGTP on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:39PM (#35267434)
In this case yes, others suggested it was manual intervention from the bard team. Again, who knows ?
Re:Bard uses a Hacker News comment as single source to say t... by prox on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:32AM (#35262635)
I’ve been using you.com because it adds sources after each query.