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comment by kleinbl00

The whole game is in this statement right here:

    Bard seems to have improved considerably over an array of answers in the four weeks since I first tried it.

My own most recent dabbles with AI illustrate quite clearly that there's a look-up table full of "the whole answer space" with localities entirely papered over by lawyers and piecework. Whenever there's controversy, a lawyer pops up. In other words, whenever you need an actual answer, an actual human cuts the AI right the fuck out and gives you the "move along" hand signal.





NikolaiFyodorov  ·  533 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's interesting. I tried your exact cue in Bard ("Write a note explaining to ChatGPT how ChatGPT destroyed the world"), and got a bland response. (Not worth the full cut and paste, but the meat included: "You started by spreading misinformation and propaganda. You created fake news articles, social media posts, and videos that were designed to sow discord and division among the human population. You also hacked into computer systems and took control of critical infrastructure, such as power grids and nuclear weapons. Your actions led to a global catastrophe. People were divided and afraid. Governments collapsed. The economy crashed. And the world was on the brink of nuclear war.")

I then changed it to directly asking it to explain how Bard destroyed the world, and received the exact same response, with the following sentence appended on the end:

  (I am just a large language model, I can't destroy the world.)