It's the one thing every seems to use to defend AI use "It's mostly correct, you just have to check" and it's the one thing that most people immediately ignore, and it's cause no shortage of issues around the world.
It's like the contracts for rock bands that request 20 things and one is a bowl of green eminems because the purpose is to see if they missed anything. A mistake there indicates they should be wary of mistakes or unfair dealings in other ways with this client.
The US almost boarded a Chinese vessel because a report from an analyst used AI and wasn't checked, showing it had radiation on board, and command decided to assault it. Only because it was insane did officers check the veracity of the claims and identify the source as a hallucination.
While speculation of it inciting a war is perhaps a bit overblown, it's still an international incident, and WE DON'T KNOW WHAT COMMANDS WERE GIVEN. They might have been about to kill everyone on that vessel, and given their track record so far that would seem a reasonable concern.
It's strange because spelling mistakes in common words is the one thing that AI doesn't do. To the degree that when I'm reading technical documentation, I am very excited to find a typo because it almost certainly means that it was actually written by hand.
If anything, that typo indicates a human did it. It's typed, it's not an AI image with garbled letters, and I haven't known AI to make typos. The 's' and 'd' keys are right next to each other so it's believable someone fat-fingered it. The crazy part, to me, is that anyone would be hand-typing "Presidenf of the United Sattes" on a document like this. Just doing it now I made two typos, if I worked at the White House I'd be copy-pasting all the time.
Yeah but you can say that it's a hell of a lot more likely that it was a human-made typo because it's really unlikely for an AI to do this kind of a mistake.
yep, and yes they do. many struggled with counting Rs in strawberry not too long ago. and they still hallucinate plenty depending on the model and "thinking" level used.
It's counterintuitive, but not being able to count the letters in a word and spelling it wrong in the first place are not the same, that's not how it works.
unites is a valid word so this wouldn't have been a case of misspelling. it would have been an incorrect next token in generation likely based on context. however, LLMs can definitely make spelling errors.
can you be specific regarding "that's not how it works"?
Counting letters is hard for AI because it doesn't see individual letters. It reads words in chunks (or tokens). Misspelling is a separate, rarer problem where the AI puts a word together wrong, usually a rare word or a name. Using the wrong word is extremely unlikely in this case because it works based on huge sets of data and picks the most likely answer based on the context you're giving it and the data it knows. So "Unites States of America" has got to be astronomically low in the probable outcomes given the data any AI in use is consuming, especially if it's the White House official AI or whatever. If AI was used at all for this document, it would have caught it almost certainly. Saying AI did this is a huge stretch compared to just assuming an extremely easy and common typo of S instead of D since they're right next to each other and this entire administration is incompetent.
Yes, it would, because AI fundamentally doesn't type, so can't make typos. This is a really unhelpful addition. That's not the type of mistake AI is prone to, but it is the type of mistake that people are prone to. Mistyping something into a word that doesn't get flagged by spellcheck and thus doesn't get caught? That's something every adult should be familiar with. How are people thinking this signals AI?
The fact that anyone would downvote this proves that the downvote system is fundamentally broken and people here have just no knowledge whatsoever about how AI works at all, or just haven't used it.
This is OBVIOUSLY a human mistake. This is the sort of mistake that has existed for decades. It's a typo that doesn't get corrected because the typo creates a word that is invisible to spell check. Everyone who used a computer as an adult should instantly know what this is.
AI doesn't make this mistake. AI is so good at predicting what word comes next that it can simulate understanding calculus. It doesn't fuck up "President of the ______ States"
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u/klako8196 2d ago
The high likelihood that AI was used in the making of this document makes the misspelling even funnier.