I am not in this space, question: are there "bad actors" that are known to feed AI models with poisonous information?
1. Online trolls and pranksters (who already taught several different AIs to be racist in a matter of hours - just for the LOLs).
2. Nation states like China who already require models to conform to state narratives.
3. More broadly, when training on "the internet" as a whole there is a huge amount of wrong, confused information mixed in.
There's also a meta-point to make here. On a lot of culture war topics, one person's "poisonous information" is another person's "reasonable conclusion."
Im looking forwards to protoscience/unconventional science and perhaps even that what is worthy of the fringe or pseudoscience labels. The debunking there usually fails to adress the topic as it is incredibly hard to spend even a single day reading about something you "know" to be nonsense. Who has time for that?
If you take a hundred thousand such topics the odds they should all be dismissed without looking arent very good.
Apparently, you haven't been on that Internet thingie in the last five years or so... :-)
But I do agree with your point. What's interesting is the increasing number of people who act like there's some clearly objective and knowable truth about a much a larger percentage of topics than there actually is. Outside of mathematics, logic, physics and other hard sciences, the range of topics on which informed, reasonable people can disagree, at least on certain significant aspects, is vast.
That's why even the concept of having some army of "Fact Checkers" always struck me as bizarre and doomed at best, and at worst, a transparent attempt to censor and control public discourse. That more people didn't see even the idea of it as being obviously brittle is concerning.
We can trust altman and elon to weed out the "fakenews". Finally we will get the answer which is the greatest linux distro.
> Outside of mathematics, logic, physics
No need to go outside. There are plenty of Grigori Perelmans with various levels of credibility.
> Aaron clearly warns users that Nepenthes is aggressive malware. It's not to be deployed by site owners uncomfortable with trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, he tells users.
Because a website with lots of links is executable code. And the scrapers totally don't have any checks in them to see if they spent too much time on a single domain. And no data verification ever occurs. Hell, why not go all the way? Just put a big warning telling everyone: "Warning, this is a cyber-nuclear weapon! Do not deploy unless you're a super rad bad dude who totally traps the evil AI robot and wins the day!"
I more often than not use the thumbs up on bad Google AI answers
(but not always! can't find me that easily!)
What about unmarked crosswalks? Does it have to contain the crosswalk in whole or in part? That bit of white stripping is there just on the edge of this image, does that count? There’s a crosswalk in the background does that count? Etc etc.
The answer to all these questions is generally that you shouldn’t be asking. I can almost hear someone saying “You know what we mean.”