Conspiracy theory: those funny "AI gives goofy media savvy answer to a silly question" have been planted by AI companies (feddit.dk)

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For the past couple of months I have seen more and more screenshots of people asking intentionally stupid, culturally relevant questions to Google AI. The answers are actually entertaining with the AI "being in" on the joke.

I am certain these answers have been encoded, asked, screenshot and posted to Twitter/Reddit, by AI companies themselves in order to create more goodwill towards AI and remove memories of the hilariously bad early AI Google answers.

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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Might want to give an example.

You mean like "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" "I can't do that, Dave*? The AI does that because it's been fed that exchange a gazillion times so the most likely "correct" response to "open the pod bay doors" is "I can't do that". Same with other culturally significant texts.

[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Probably also sillier things, too. Stuff like "I'm a fish and I see a hook with a worm on it" and the ai will be like "Oh no! Swim away now! Do not try to bite the worm! Its a trap and you will definitely be going on an adventure that you hadn't bargained for if you decide to bite that worm."

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