Friday Funnies: Hallucinating A.I.s.

If they only had a brain.

Robert W Malone MD, MS Aug 02, 2024

Factchecked: True (from Business Insider)

Meta’s AI chatbot was initially programmed to not answer questions about the assassination attempt against Trump, the company said.
After Meta updated the bot to give a response, in some instances, it claimed the shooting didn’t happen.
The incident, which the company blamed on “hallucinations,” shows how chaotic AI can be when mixed with politics.

The Meta spokeperson states:

“In a small number of cases, Meta AI continued to provide incorrect answers, including sometimes asserting that the event didn’t happen — which we are quickly working to address,” Kaplan wrote. “These types of responses are referred to as hallucinations, which is an industry-wide issue we see across all generative AI systems, and is an ongoing challenge for how AI handles real-time events going forward. Like all generative AI systems, models can return inaccurate or inappropriate outputs, and we’ll continue to address these issues and improve these features as they evolve and more people share their feedback.”

We live in a bizarre world.

Where the FBI director lies to Congress, stating that it could have been “shrapnel” that hit the president.
Where the Google search engine – would not show results for the Trump assassination until public outcry demanded it.
Where Facebook denies the assassination was real – until their lies are exposed.

But heck, they can blame it all on “faulty” AI systems, which are busy “hallucinating,”… and MSM goes along to get along…

All of which shows the power of access journalism and advocacy journalism to control the media.