Re:Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in s...
by VancouverMan on Saturday May 25, 2024 @06:24PM
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In general, I have trouble trusting environments that can be described as "strongly moderated and curated".
I find that environments that rely on censorship tend to foster dogma, rather than knowledge and real understanding of the topics at hand. They give an illusion of quality and trustworthiness. It's something we see happen at this site to some extent, for example.
I'd rather see ideas and information being freely expressed, and if necessary, pitted against one another, with me being the one to judge for myself the ideas/claims/positions/arguments/perspectives/etc. that are being expressed.
Re:Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in s...
by giantrobot on Saturday May 25, 2024 @07:30PM
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Your comment is orthogonal to the quality of the AskHistorians subreddit. AskHistorians' moderation tends towards curating posts following the rules rather than content. There's often competing narratives on questions where there's academic dispute of facts.
Regardless of whether you think that's the right approach to moderation, top level posts are sourced and can at least be examined. It's a marked improvement over the unsourced musings of random Redditors.
OpenAI, Google, and the other LLMs-are-smart boosters seem to think because the Internet is large it must be smart. They're applying the infinite monkey theorem[0] incorrectly.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem