“ Who could’ve seen this coming? Less than 24 hours after deployment, the Los Angeles Times’ new artificial intelligence is defending the Ku Klux Klan, per The Daily Beast. Designed to give a full range of opinions and perspectives, Insights, developed by the company Particle, was announced yesterday to ensure the paper’s supposed biases were counterbalanced with a list of counterarguments. For example, if the article is about why the Nazis are evil, the AI will retort, “Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.” That’s pretty much what happened today in a column by Gustavo Arellano about the 100th anniversary of Anaheim removing four KKK members from its city council. Desperate to provide a counterargument, the AI opted to defend the Klan.
“Local historical accounts occasionally frame the 1920s Klan as a product of ‘white Protestant culture’ responding to societal changes rather than an explicitly hate-driven movement, minimizing its ideological threat,” the AI offered. The “insight” has since been removed from the article, but the bot continues still terrorizing other pieces, awaiting another chance to provide a racist perspective.”
Ok, we need more reactions than the heart. it feels inappropriate to ‘heart’ this.
The AI that they are forcing down our throats is not true artificial intelligence. (I am not a techie person, this is coming from my brother, who explained how this generative AI works.).
It learns from us and what we feed it. So if humans are racist, this form of fed intelligence is going to end up also being racist.
Afrikanner now LA based Patrick Soon-Shiong….it’s awful, not like the LA Times was very decent and now its owned by an actual rightwing authoriarian I suspect (religious) sadist. I don’t know people can continue working there, I get it we need to pay bills, but then again, no I don’t get it.
I feel the same way about things because I have walked off of jobs with -$2 in my bank account rather than subject myself to, or somehow give approval, to what has been going on. I don’t have children which helps, and, well, sometimes having ADHD can be a bit of a super power because when you don’t care you really CANNOT care, so walking off of abusive job sites is a little easier.
it feels inappropriate to ‘heart’ this.
this article or AI. I’m curious