AI concludes right wing think tanks are less moral, objective and are of lower quality vs the left

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While AI is simply fancy auto-complete, it's nonetheless amusing
Even with this knowledge, you see people on here surrendering more and more of their thinking to AI nonsense that spews results confidently.

I don't care what LLM "think" about whatever subject. If their training dataset isn't properly restricted, it can easily hallucinate garbage.

There are some great AI advances being made. Sadly, the stuff in the public eye - LLMs and crappy picture generators - seem to be the worst.
 
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fskimospy

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I feel this has been known for a very long time.

It boils down to the simple fact that the scholarship itself is much less important to right wing think tanks than the advocacy. It’s the same with conservative media - informing the audience is less important than the advocacy.

This isn’t to say left wing think tanks don’t also balance these two things but they balance them differently.
 

Fenixgoon

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Even with this knowledge, you see people on here surrendering more and more of their thinking to AI nonsense that spews results confidently.

I don't care what LLM "think" about whatever subject. If their training dataset isn't properly restricted, it can easily hallucinate garbage.

There are some great AI advances being made. Sadly, the stuff in the public eye - LLMs and crappy picture generators - seem to be the worst.
The misrepresentation is deliberate in order to secure ridiculous amounts of investment money. And so far, it's been a successful strategy. It hasn't produced anything value yet.

That isn't to say that machine learning algorithms aren't useful, as their application to data science and analysis has been incredible. But the idea that these models have anything approaching what we consider to be human intelligence or "thinking" is a farce

(I know I'm preaching to the choir)
 

cytg111

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You guys are talking about yesterdays AI and training its data.

Today you ask the AI on realtime subjects and it will do the searches for you and create a distilled summary of what's going on - WITH sources.

If you take an average dude with an average brain, train this person to maximize his potential with the current crop of top tier AI services, you are augmenting this person with a crystallized +30IQ modifier.

Laugh and dismiss these advances at your own peril.
 

nakedfrog

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You guys are talking about yesterdays AI and training its data.

Today you ask the AI on realtime subjects and it will do the searches for you and create a distilled summary of what's going on - WITH sources.

If you take an average dude with an average brain, train this person to maximize his potential with the current crop of top tier AI services, you are augmenting this person with a crystallized +30IQ modifier.

Laugh and dismiss these advances at your own peril.
I'm curious how you feel this relates specifically to OP's article.

I don't think most average dudes with average brains are using top tier AI services, they're using whatever the free one is and accepting the output uncritically. I also think it's obvious that "the AI" is capable of much and shouldn't be casually disregarded, but I also think the free LLM and generative AI that we're inundated with the output of is not a wise use of resources.
 

hal2kilo

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You guys are talking about yesterdays AI and training its data.

Today you ask the AI on realtime subjects and it will do the searches for you and create a distilled summary of what's going on - WITH sources.

If you take an average dude with an average brain, train this person to maximize his potential with the current crop of top tier AI services, you are augmenting this person with a crystallized +30IQ modifier.

Laugh and dismiss these advances at your own peril.
Hell I've seem Apple commercials that imply that it can do your homework. The beginning of the end.
 
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cytg111

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I'm curious how you feel this relates specifically to OP's article.

I don't think most average dudes with average brains are using top tier AI services, they're using whatever the free one is and accepting the output uncritically. I also think it's obvious that "the AI" is capable of much and shouldn't be casually disregarded, but I also think the free LLM and generative AI that we're inundated with the output of is not a wise use of resources.
Naw I was leaning into some of the comments with that.
And yea sure, at present the average joe is using it for shits and giggles... However...
 

Muse

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Even AI concludes the right are pieces of shit. What is their response? Change the AI models. Not to be self reflective about their own behavior.

Well, I knew all this without any tech help. It IS nice to have statistical confirmation, but sheesh, anyone with integrity paying attention to what's been going on knows this.