Submission + - ChatGPT murdered common sense in the bedroom with the candlestick? (asahi.com) 2
shanen writes: Surprised to see this story has NOT been mentioned here. Maybe the lack of potential for funny? But I see it as yet another example of the harms of AI via unintended consequences. So here's a short summary, mostly rehashing the NHK versions of the story. The Giants are to Japanese baseball what the Yankees are to American baseball, except much more so (though I guess you could argue both teams are long past their prime glory days). A few days ago Abe, the manager of the Giants, resigned in disgrace. The incident that started it was a trivial argument with his older daughter, but she asked ChatGPT for advice, and the "intelligent" advice from ChatGPT caused the trivial family situation to escalate completely out of control. The firm adherence to rules, especially the silly ones, was important, too, but it's a pretty insane situation with gigantic consequences.
Not sure how to properly generalize the problem, but genAI is making people dependent and stupid. Yes, there are have been lots of previous technologies that have been accused of doing the same sort of thing, but I think genAI has crossed a threshold and we poor humans can't keep up now. By the time we learn what to do about the last crisis, genAI has already changed and caused two to five fresh crises. Or more.
I included a video link and a newspaper story (both in English), but my thinking on these problems is more influenced by some books about Facebook and TikTok that I have been reading recently. The AIs' fingerprints are all over the corpse of common sense even as they try to frame "everyday human idiocy" for the murder.
(Disclaimer needed? I'm currently working "with" Claude to replace a complicated PERL system. Is the genAI making me stupid? Or has it helped me find a more elegant solution to the problem? The code is much prettier than my own, and the webpage it designed looks better than any of the ones I did myself... But perhaps that's just because I tend to bleed between languages?)
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworl...
Not sure how to properly generalize the problem, but genAI is making people dependent and stupid. Yes, there are have been lots of previous technologies that have been accused of doing the same sort of thing, but I think genAI has crossed a threshold and we poor humans can't keep up now. By the time we learn what to do about the last crisis, genAI has already changed and caused two to five fresh crises. Or more.
I included a video link and a newspaper story (both in English), but my thinking on these problems is more influenced by some books about Facebook and TikTok that I have been reading recently. The AIs' fingerprints are all over the corpse of common sense even as they try to frame "everyday human idiocy" for the murder.
(Disclaimer needed? I'm currently working "with" Claude to replace a complicated PERL system. Is the genAI making me stupid? Or has it helped me find a more elegant solution to the problem? The code is much prettier than my own, and the webpage it designed looks better than any of the ones I did myself... But perhaps that's just because I tend to bleed between languages?)
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworl...
