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BBC Calls Out Apple's AI Feature for Creating More Fake News Headlines
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The main future use case of AI summarisation is reducing 10 pages of AI slop to the prompt that was used to create it.
My work paid for it and got me setup with it two years ago, and it was so effective to the point where I was getting several times more work done than I did before, had amazing reviews at work, etc. Then I was suddenly replaced by someone much younger and cheaper (I'm almost 40 and a senior developer) and I'm currently looking for work. I'm hoping to get into management next because apparently I'm ancient now, and I have some limited management experience.
Companies are now realizing they can replace experienced professionals with cheap entry level employees combined with AI, which is bad news for everyone over 30. And how much longer after that until they just start replacing everyone? Eventually something has to give because the economy can't handle that many people without income. I've been sounding the alarm about this for a while, and then it happened to me. The next person could be any one of you reading this post.
When the human-written headline is "'Great experience' but Nadal feared 'disaster'"
followed by:
Can you really blame the AI?
followed by:
Can you really blame the AI?
There was a time when the Internet wasn't filled with trash? I must have missed that day.
For what it's worth, outside of certain applications of the technology like Apple's summary and rewriting features, the LLM technology doesn't stitch together unrelated information from existing text, and nothing is keyword based except for prefabricated answers when you ask something of an LLM that is against its creators' "safety" measures. These models are just a series of weights, or as someone wrote above, "a statistical illusion."
Generative AI is not particularly dangerous, as long as people are aware of it and how it works. Unfortunately, not a lot of people have the time to really learn how it works, and the media is more interested in being able to write sensationalist headlines for clicks than in presenting accurate information, so it's up to people to independently educate themselves.
LLMs have their place, but they're far from perfect. I would never use an LLM for finalized production work, but it can be great for helping with certain things. For example, I'll sometimes quickly bounce an idea or problem off an offline LLM in order to look at it in a different light. It's not going to give me an accurate technical answer. But it can give me new avenues to pursue that co-workers and I hadn't considered.
It still pales in comparison to the deceptions of the corporate juggernaut press. I believe it's worse when humans lie than when an amoral computer does.
Perhaps this will incentivise the BBC to move back to only using push alerts for major news, and sparingly. There shouldn't be enough push alerts for Apple to stuff them up. Seriously, I don't care which football player has stubbed his toe, or which singer has just landed in London.
No matter who they are, Apple Intelligence misinterpreted notifications indeed. That’s the joke in this topic.
Not exactly, social media is designed to spread (false) information. Giving users a bigger reach than they would normally have. And also it basically creates echo chambers because it learns and feeds the user's own opinions to them.
AI (LLM) is just a model that imitates language. It doesn't know at all what it's saying. I actually compare them (AIs) to parrots, they can learn human speech but they don't have a clue what they say.
Exactly. I saved this BBC title (from a long time ago) as it made me laugh. The BBC has no grounds for calling Apple out on mis-leading people with news...
It's a darn sight more credible than most other sources. Give us an idea of a trusted news source? The problem is often with the viewer/reader and their pre-determined viewpoint. They want to see what they already believe rather than some uncomfortable truth. BBC News is often quite bland and boring - deliberately so, as it focuses on the facts.
Is that misleading or is it just a typical clickbait title that is now pretty typical of the internet today?
People can make up their own minds i guess, article in question - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19735959
BBC and facts, sometimes ? But generally the mouth piece of the UK Gov. always has been.
I think there will be a lot more fake news after next Monday. Given that all the major tech companies have donated $1m to the inauguration what should I do?
Much like what was said about apple intelligence. Whats
Good for the goose is good for the gander.
Evening old bean! Can't be good for your book all these fake news notifications