Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

Google’s AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery’s positives.

  • livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Your and @WoodenBleachers’s idea of “effective” is very subjective though.

    For example Germany was far worse off during the last few weeks of Hitler’s term than it was before him. He left it in partial ruins - and under the control of multiple other powers.

    To me, that’s not effective leadership, it’s a complete car crash.

      • livus@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        He was able to convince the majority that his way of thinking was the right way to go and deployed a plan to that effect

        So, you’re basically saying an effective leader is someone who can convince people to go along with them for a sustained period. Jim Jones was an effective leader by that metric. Which I would dispute. So was the guy who led the Donner Party to their deaths.

        This is why I see a problem with this. You and I are able to discuss this and work out what each other means.

        But in a world where people are time-poor and critical thinking takes time, errors based on fundamental misunderstandings of consensual meanings can flourish.

        And the speed and sheer amount of global digital communication means that they can be multiplied and compounded in ways that individual fact checkers will not be able to challenge sucessfully.

        • ScrimbloBimblo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he’d been ineffective, he’d have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn’t have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him.

          • livus@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            Huh? Yikes this feels like being back on reddit.

            No I am not trying to “fight” you or “straw man” you at all!!!

            I thought we were having a pleasant and civilized conversation about the merits and pitfalls of AI , using our different ideas about the word “effective” as an example.

            Unfortunately I didn’t see that you’re handing me downvotes until just now, so I didn’t pick up on your vibe.