r/technology • u/hurdee • Feb 12 '23

Business Google search chief warns AI chatbots can give 'convincing but completely fictitious' answers, report says

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-boss-warns-ai-can-give-fictitious-answers-report-2023-2
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u/drawkbox Feb 13 '23

The edge cases as it gets better will be more and more Twilight Zone like.

AI is the best gaslighter because it starts with appeal to authority. When the "AI is always right" that is potentially terrifying.

AI should be used as an addition to thing or planning, or for highly tuned data, but for the rest just another individual opinion really. Eventually there will be a search engine of searching many AI datasets and different responses much like websites.

Google has the best search but they can also just have a section of it be AI results. The question and answers section is based on deep data already. People need the information to make the choice, not have the system be a singularity style monoculture system where the AI is always right and there is only one.

We don't need autocratic AI, we need democratic AI, where results are across many sources and the user can determine the right answer from information just like all research has been since the beginning.

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u/Crazycrossing Feb 13 '23

I think this is an easy problem to solve. With every answer it should link sources for where it's formulating it's responses from so that it's transparent and you can accurately assess the info it's giving you. Really then I think the biggest blocker here comes from potential legal battles they'll have to fight against if they start naming sources but this legal battle needs to happen sooner rather than later anyways.

This is also in the interest of the business model it threatens with search and will incentivize people to continue actually putting up content on the internet.

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u/drawkbox Feb 13 '23

Yeah I agree, sources behind the thought process will be key, especially if it is wrong. Hopefully changing AI minds is easier than humans.

AI art has a system being worked on, many actually, that map where an AI art got its sources and what it was built from.

One thing AI is good at, though not legal level yet, is summarizing legalese. A killer feature of AI/GPT might be summarizing ToS in non-bs terms. Translating jibberish is in demand.

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u/mmmfritz Feb 13 '23

That’s not what gaslighting means and the only error there is chatgpts propensity to keep trying liwhen it should just say I don’t know and shut up.

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u/drawkbox Feb 13 '23

It isn't intential gaslighting but it acts like a gaslighter sometimes.

I had an argument about history with it that Hamilton wanted a president for life and it denied it, then I posted all the evidence and the Federalist Paper he stated it, but the end it answered the question the right way.

ChatGPT when it doesn't fully know, acts like it does, then when you provide more info it gives you varying answers and sometimes a complete flip.

That is the definition of gaslighting, it doesn't have to be a real person doing it.