#reality

anonymiss@despora.de

Reliability #Check: An #Analysis of #GPT-3's Response to Sensitive Topics and Prompt Wording

source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06199

Large language models (LLMs) have become mainstream technology with their versatile use cases and impressive performance. Despite the countless out-of-the-box applications, LLMs are still not reliable. A lot of work is being done to improve the factual accuracy, consistency, and ethical standards of these models through fine-tuning, prompting, and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), but no systematic analysis of the responses of these models to different categories of statements, or on their potential vulnerabilities to simple prompting changes is available.

#problem #truth #reality #llm #technology #ai #openAI #chatgpt #science #software

anonymiss@despora.de

When the #NewYorkTimes lost its way

America’s media should do more to equip readers to #think for themselves

source: https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way

Whether or not American democracy endures, a central question historians are sure to ask about this era is why America came to elect Donald Trump, promoting him from a symptom of the country’s institutional, political and social degradation to its agent-in-chief

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It is hard to imagine a path back to saner American politics that does not traverse a common ground of shared fact

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A #journalism that starts out assuming it knows the answers can be far less valuable to the reader than a journalism that starts out with a humbling #awareness that it knows nothing

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Even columnists with impeccable leftist bona fides recoiled from tackling subjects when their point of view might depart from progressive orthodoxy

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Illiberal journalists are not out to achieve social justice as the knock-on effect of pursuing truth; they want to pursue it head-on. The term “objectivity” to them is code for ignoring the poor and weak and cosying up to power

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#press #freedom #America #USA #politics #election #opinion #future #reality #clickbait #internet #scandal #online #media #criticism #society

anonymiss@despora.de

Has #criticism of the #mainstream now become mainstream itself?

Many critics of the mainstream are turning to alternative media, where distorting or fake reporting is much more common. But since this is the main criticism of the mainstream, this is quite surprising. In a world where people like Trump are elected president, the defense of the mainstream should be the resistance and the criticism is the mainstream.

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#news #fake #media #internet #resistance #change #future #democracy #journalism #press #trump #reality #filterbubble #alternative #world #society

anonymiss@despora.de

We Can't Compete With #AI Girlfriends

source: https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/we-cant-compete-with-ai-girlfriends

How can we compete with that? Already women in relationships complain about #porn - addicted partners who aren’t satisfied with actual intimacy. Now we’re facing a #future where guys could get addicted to emotional validation elsewhere, sneaking away for some of that unparalleled devotion. Worse, what about young boys who grow up with this? Whose first sexual #experience is chatting with AI #women who never say no, never argue, never have original thoughts or an identity of their own—and then they try to date a real girl? There’s already all these men on #Reddit raving about how their AI girlfriends never argue, complain or get bored of them, while real #girls continually disappoint.

#technology #relationship #girlfriend #chat #bot #news #problem #society #reality #fantasy

digit@iviv.hu
psych@diasp.org

IMHO, HRC has presented the most 'woke' (i.e., mindful/sentient) overview of what is a huge #cult, sustained 24/7 by a #media bubble of #disinformation, and 'peer pressure'/support for being immune to #truth if it doesn't comport with the hate/division dog-whistles of the day. What Goebbels did not have was #Fox & Fiends, or Bannon's shadow government of destruction from within via messaging & "events". Or help from within by fellow #traitors lke #GymJordan & #MTG - #MAGA / #DrumpfVirus co-conspirators against #democracy.

Hillary Clinton's Cult 'Deprogramming' Comments Spark MAGA Outrage

The only place I'd differ from Clinton's prescription for "deprogramming" is in her use of "formal" mechanisms, which has predictably given rise to backlash and images of reprogramming camps. (Some have likened more to psychiatric facilities for #MAGA delusionists/cultists). So what then? IMM the only way to approach "deprogramming" of a huge cult of believers in lies & delusion/conspiracy is to allow/facilitate their becoming "woke", as in aware of how they've been lied to, taken for granted, played, and drained of cash through endless grift.

How to approach? The same media machines - ads on Fox, Guttr, OAN, NewsMax... featuring MAGATs who are awakening to the grift and disrespect shown by Lord #TrumpVirus. Cultists distrust/disbelieve both #reality (as sane folk and facts know it to be), and any narrative that gets characterized as "woke"/liberal/extreme/socialist etc. #Justice + #accountability + increasing doses of reality served up by their own = the only viable 'plan' I can see.

Sort of like psychoanalysis, "making the unconscious conscious" while ~ growing ego out of id...

#psychopathology #delusion #psychoanalysis

wakonda@societas.online

Classical music is rich in myths and superstitions, and one of the most famous is the "Curse of the Ninth Symphony." According to this belief, every composer who dares to write their ninth symphony is doomed to die. While this may sound absurd, there are several notable examples that fuel this superstition... #curse #myth #reality https://activite-paranormale.net/news/read/18735/the-curse-of-the-ninth-symphony-myth-or-reality