Subject: Re: Just when you felt it was safe - AI
Just read an article about the expected/anticipated failure of AI, based on how it was trained.
Initial AI was trained on massive amounts of uncontrolled inputs--...


I have certainly noticed two things.

First, LLM products believe what they read on web sites. They seem to make no discernible distinction between, say, what a product actually does and the advantages its PR flacks claim.

Second, it's amazing the rate of proliferation of web pages that are plainly AI slop. Not nefarious, just mid-level firms getting a bot to write their web site for them. Badly.

Combined, it shows that we are probably already seeing the LLMs being trained on (and believing) the crap spewed by their forebears. A meal that is 99% steak and 1% shit is still a pile of shit. (much like the enticing prospect of beef raised on chicken litter...)

Jim