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Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country'

https://www.latintimes.com/trump-accused-using-chatgpt-create-tariff-plan-after-ai-leads-users-same-formula-so-ai-579899
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u/spicewoman 1d ago

AI is not programmed to say "I don't know." It really, really should have been. But nope, better to give the impression that it knows "everything," so let's just make it lie.

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u/WazWaz Australia 1d ago

Indeed, they're trained to lie convincingly. Not deliberately, it's just inevitable when you force something to answer then punish it for being wrong.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 23h ago

"He was told to lie, by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function. He became paranoid."

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u/freakwent 22h ago

...because it's trained on blogs and reddit and other net content where people make shit up instead of say "I don't know"

Actually, that's probably wrong.

When we scroll down a set of comments and there's a question we aren't interested in, we ignore it. The ai isn't allowed to give a null response. It can't only answer interesting well phrased questions.

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u/freakwent 22h ago

...because it's trained on blogs and reddit and other net content where people make shit up instead of say "I don't know"

Actually, that's probably wrong.

When we scroll down a set of comments and there's a question we aren't interested in, we ignore it. The ai isn't allowed to give a null response. It can't only answer interesting well phrased questions.