It’s an LLM. Odds are it’s hallucinating the sources and they don’t even exist.
Know what does compile sources for you which are guaranteed to exist and be related to what you’re looking for…? A good old not LLM infected search engine.
If my plumber replaces their wrench for a rabid gerbil claiming it’ll be just as good I’m definitely changing plumbers.
The good thing about that is that this kills the LLMs, since new models can only be trained on this LLM generated gibberish, which makes the gibberish they’ll generate even more garbled and useless, and so on, until every model you try to train can only produce random useless unintelligible garbage.
It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
There are no users left. It’s bots all the way through, like maggots in a rotting corpse.
Generative AI is not going back into the bag.
It probably will, though, once model collapse sets in.
That’s the irony, really… the more successful it is, the sooner it’ll poison itself to death.
Because it’s metal as fuck, that’s why. Electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom.
Also, it’s pretty:
To children?!
Well, the USA is the only United Nations member who hasn’t ratified the UN convention on rights of the child (since it would prevent children from being executed or imprisoned for life and give them guaranteed access to safe medical care, standing in court, the right to divorce their rapist spouses, protections from physical and sexual abuse, and so on, all of which go against the country’s core principle of maximising suffering), so no surprise there, really.
As always, the suffering is the point.
Impressive how…? It’s just statistics-based very slightly fancier autocomplete…
And useful…? It’s utterly useless for anything that requires the text it generates to be reliable and trustworthy… the most it can be somewhat reliably used for is as a somewhat more accurate autocomplete (yet with a higher chance for its mistakes to go unnoticed) and possibly, if trained on a custom dataset, as a non-quest-essential dialogue generator for NPCs in games… in any other use case it’ll inevitably cause more harm than good… and in those two cases the added costs aren’t remotely worth the slight benefits.
It’s just a fancy extremely expensive toy with no real practical uses worth its cost.
The only people it’s useful to are snake oil salesmen and similar scammers (and even then only in the short run, until model collapse makes it even more useless).
All it will have achieved in the end is an increase in enshittification, global warming, and distrust in any future real AI research.
I think this is still fundamentally misunderstood widely.
The fact that it’s being sold as artificial intelligence instead of autocomplete doesn’t help.
Or Google and Microsoft trying to sell it as a replacement for search engines.
It’s malicious misinformation all the way down.
LLM models can’t be updated (i.e., learn), they have to be retrained from scratch… and that can’t be done because all sources of new information are polluted enough with AI to cause model collapse.
So they’re stuck with outdated information, or, if they are being retrained, they get dumber and crazier with each iteration due to the amount of LLM generated crap on the training data.
So, they’ve basically accidentally (or intentionally) made Eliza with extra steps (and many orders of magnitude more energy consumption).
It also tells any passing scammer that an easy mark lives there.
that was just trying to come up with a helpful tool
No it wasn’t. It labels anything left of outright fascism as left biased. It’s evidently intended to shift the overton window even further right than it already is, specifically to influence the US elections.
The only people it’s helping are Trump and his owners.
I don’t know, same reason you’d force a cat to eat a vegan diet, I suppose.
Some form of mental illness that either makes you incapable of understanding the damage you’re causing to the animal, or that makes you enjoy its suffering. 🤷♂️
This actually made me change my mind up to the possibility of feeding cats a vegan diet from being unacceptable to being an acceptable practice.
And this is why misinformation should never be allowed in public platforms.
Cats are going to die in agony because the mods folded and gave the lunatics free reign to spread their nonsense and convince gullible people.
Between this and the far right disinformation bot at this point the only reasonable solution is for other instances to defeferate lemmy.world to quarantine the infection.
Cats are obligate carnivores with an excellent sense of smell, evolved to eat freshly hunted meat and little else, who’ll have to be very hungry before they eat anything remotely past due date.
We’re omnivores who’ll eat pretty much anything including stuff that’d kill most other animals that’d try to eat it (seriously, look up the long lists of “normal” foods you can’t feed your pets because they’d kill them); we call deadly toxins that plants have evolved over hundreds of millions of years to be as inedible as possible “spices” and “drugs”, and consume them for fun. We’ll let perfectly good food rot and ferment for months before we eat it because it somehow makes it better for our tastes.
No, we’re most definitely not the picky eaters here, not even when compared to dogs, much less when compared to cats.
As for the ocean, everything in it comes with concentrations of mercury and other heavy elements and industrial waste that are harmful even to us, extremely high percentages of microplastics, and a vast variety of parasites that require anything we get from the ocean to be flash frozen before it can be considered safe to eat (if we ignore the heavy metals and plastics and other shit).
Plus, of course, every bit of crap ever produced on the planet ends up there… if homeopathy was real ocean water would be a fucking universal panacea, the amount of shit it’s got dissolved in it.
I’ve always assumed most of the “food” we get from the big liquid dumpster we call sea wouldn’t be sellable (to humans or other animals) if anything remotely resembling quality control applied to it… if anything, I’d assume the least worst bits go to the cats, since they’re much pickier eaters than us, and have less tolerance for toxins…
some cat food is indistinguishable from canned tuna
This might be saying more about canned tuna than about cat food… (and I love canned tuna).
And if I’m not mistaken he did so after he’d been notified the kid was being investigated for death threats.
(I mean, I’m all for people who don’t secure their guns being charged for what their kids do with them, but this particular case goes far beyond mere negligence.)