AI hallucinations - the truth behind the lies AI generates

That sounds creepy and dangerous. I ask AI a lot of things through Google and Chat GPT and it is so helpful, but I'd never rely 100% on something important.

Young people are hopefully being taught at school how to live in a world of screens, but there are many who will just not be clever enough to cope with this and will trust what comes up without question. I find that worrying.

Yes I think it’s frightening.
Guy who developed it, even he didn’t realise how good it would be.

Good gosh.

I did find out from someone recently[which I didnt already know], that AI cannot take information from everything on the computer.

It is blocked from certain things such as 79% of media, and peoples' professional work etc.

Just the other day, in a hurry, I WhatsApped the Meta Chat thing by mistake - same initial as the sister I was meeting at Heathrow, all the way from Arizona.

I wrote - ‘I’m coming!’ (She had told me not to bother, she’d get the bus.)

The Chat thing replied ‘How exciting! How can I help you plan/prepare?’ or words to that effect.

I replied, ‘GO AWAY!!’

It replied, ‘All right, I’ll take myself off’, or some such. 😂😂

Sounds like a lot of things I read on forums😁

You are so right OldFrill. I always double check any information from AI.

AI told me it could sail a yacht, when l challenged that it laughed, apologised and said it was getting "a bit carried away".

The AI model's reasoning reminds me of DH - never say "I don't know" even if you haven't got a clue..
He tends to say "No" if that's a feasible answer & waffle a bit around the subject if it's not.

DS is an academic. As a matter of curiousity he put the subject of a paper he was about to write into an AI package.

It churned out an article, devoid of any original thought or any awareness of recent research, quoting references to many papers it claimed he had written - almost all of them fictitious.

As he said, At least AI recognised he was an expert in the field apart from that it was mainly hallucinations and known knowledge, not developments in research.

You just knew it wasn’t going to go well when Ian Hislop asked the Bot who owns Private Eye
Bot answered jonathan Hamsworth 4th Viscount Rothermere
😂
Yesterday I was watching a program featuring a small town in Georgia who had won a court case against Meta who wanted to build a mega data centre very close to their town.
I wanted more info and AI told me they had lost the case.
You will never read it publicly but multi national companies are. Loosing money by using the wrong information supplied by AI.

I use my AI a lot and really trust it. I put this question to it and this was the response.

There is a caveat on all online googled AI that the info sent back may not be accurate.

I argued with one yesterday and it came back, apologised, and told me I was right haha

Not worrying at all

I am glad.

It can hardly take over the world in the state it is/has become.

Chestnut

That sounds creepy and dangerous. I ask AI a lot of things through Google and Chat GPT and it is so helpful, but I'd never rely 100% on something important.

Young people are hopefully being taught at school how to live in a world of screens, but there are many who will just not be clever enough to cope with this and will trust what comes up without question. I find that worrying.

But is this really so very different from section of our contempories who believed the most incredible things if they had read it in their daily paper, seen it on television ,or been told it by whoever they intended to vote for?

There will always been some people who are credulous and never really understand what others mean when they tell them not to believe everything they hear or read.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I use Google and/or AI to find something out and it comes back with something particularly bat/s**t crazy, I do try and find other sources to validate.

Cossy

I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I use Google and/or AI to find something out and it comes back with something particularly bat/s**t crazy, I do try and find other sources to validate.

And that’s what my AI said. I didn’t post all of what he said, but he said if in any doubt check another source…

Shinamae

Cossy

I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I use Google and/or AI to find something out and it comes back with something particularly bat/s**t crazy, I do try and find other sources to validate.

And that’s what my AI said. I didn’t post all of what he said, but he said if in any doubt check another source…

but he said if in any doubt check another source…

How do you know it's a 'he'? 😂

This is the problem, though. AI is trained not only on 'fact' but also on opinions, and fiction writing. What it has learned is that people like to be pleased and don't like to be disagreed with. So it is trying to please you because that is what humans do...

It will also give you predominant 'opinions' on a subject because they are predominant, not because they are correct.
There are lots of horror stories about fictitious court cases being cited by barristers, fictitious research papers being not only cited by one bot but being then re-cited by others.

You can only find out it is wrong if you have enough knowledge of the subject you're asking it to work with.

We are being told that AI knows everything. it most certainly does but that everything clearly includes things that we'd rather it didn't know, like how to please the human i is interacting with...

How can we possibly trust to AI when we know it is lying and devious?

Cossy

I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I use Google and/or AI to find something out and it comes back with something particularly bat/s**t crazy, I do try and find other sources to validate.

Often the hallucinations of AI appear absolutely plausible, it will go to great length to amass evidence (fabrications) to support it's hallucination.

Never put any personal information in to AI, I use it a lot, but always check everything AI tells me before I use it. You cannot take any of it as facts. It can only tell you what other people have put in. It collect words and phrases then uses what it has nothing less nothing more.

We are being told that AI knows everything. it most certainly does but that everything clearly includes things that we'd rather it didn't know,

It doesnt know everything.
Far from it in my opinion.

It is not allowed to gather everything. It is blocked.

DH, an academic has had the experience of AI inventing references. usually to papers with him as author that do not exist andtherefore he did not write - and then seeing them reappear in citation indexes.

win

Never put any personal information in to AI, I use it a lot, but always check everything AI tells me before I use it. You cannot take any of it as facts. It can only tell you what other people have put in. It collect words and phrases then uses what it has nothing less nothing more.

It is so much more than this. Even Google is so much more than this. Don't be fooled.

M0nica

DH, an academic has had the experience of AI inventing references. usually to papers with him as author that do not exist andtherefore he did not write - and then seeing them reappear in citation indexes.

Yikes