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@EVBigMacMeal
I agree.
Argh!!! Ahhhh!!! Expletive deleted !!!
As I was writing this post, I decided to upload one of my own published papers to NotebookLM (
https://notebooklm.google/). This AI not only summarizes the document that you provide it, it also creates an audio podcast of two apparently quite intelligent people discussing the document. They do a "deep dive" as they call it, and you as listener get to learn along with them.
It's a great 14 minute podcast! The voices are very realistic and the interplay between the two participants is extremely engaging! It's something you'd want to listen to, heck I wanted to keep listening to it and I wrote the paper! You're learning so much, and it's fun!
But it's 14 minutes of BS.
I ought to know, I wrote the damn paper.
Admittedly, the paper was on a sort of buzzy topic so I can sort of see how an AI might go off on a riff. But the paper was narrowly technical, in principle it might have a wide application, but not after much more work, and not the applications the AI podcast people came up with. The podcast was like overhearing two bad graduate students sharing their knowledge of a technical subject, feeding off each other's "insights" with enthusiaasm, but getting it all wrong, and about your work. "NO, NO, NO!!! For the love of all that is holy, please stop! Just stop it!"
It was oddly very offensive.
Perhaps because it wasn't two humans, who in principle could be corrected, but it was a faceless machine mindlessly spewing a very convincing but very polluted version of my work.
This level of misinformation will become very ubiquitous, hence very dangerous.
And that's not including the deliberate misinformation that's created by state and non-state actors.
Apart from immediate impact, it will also create a vicious feedback loop for future training of LLMs.
I really dislike huge corporations spending huge resources (Microsoft wants the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor for gods sake) to push faulty LLM's to the public who just aren't ready for it. There's lot of dollars in the illicit drug too, but it's harmful.
