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AI Safety Red Alerts (Original Post) SamuelTheThird Feb 11 OP
the repugs are allowing this to happen Nigrum Cattus Feb 11 #1
As long as that money keeps rolling in, they have no problem with it durablend Feb 11 #2
If not helping. 2naSalit Feb 11 #4
HAL 9000 was a warning... 2naSalit Feb 11 #3
Well, on the bright(?) side, maybe AI will save the planet ecosphere. Coventina Feb 11 #5
Curious how Google Search AI would answer the question ..... Goonch Feb 11 #6
See John Varley's story "Press Enter." Easterncedar Feb 11 #7
Terrifying. snot Feb 11 #8
They should remain in your chat history TheProle Feb 11 #9
I saved copies, snot Feb 11 #12
It's not just the erroneous conclusions you still have to fact check slightlv Feb 11 #15
Yes! snot Tuesday #16
They want us to take a class F-18_AMO Feb 11 #10
Kinda like Fascists ;) n/t Cheezoholic Feb 11 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author D_Master81 Feb 11 #13
"Terrifying" was my reaction as well PatSeg Feb 11 #14

Nigrum Cattus

(1,265 posts)
1. the repugs are allowing this to happen
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 04:46 PM
Feb 11

Microsoft and most of all the big tech co's are backing
this complete failure. We will see major problems in
every system that uses A.I.

Coventina

(29,496 posts)
5. Well, on the bright(?) side, maybe AI will save the planet ecosphere.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 04:55 PM
Feb 11

Maybe by eliminating us, but I'd be ok with that....

Goonch

(4,500 posts)
6. Curious how Google Search AI would answer the question .....
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 05:11 PM
Feb 11

"what should people do when ai becomes a danger to them and how will they know the danger exists" ?

snot

(11,623 posts)
8. Terrifying.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 06:04 PM
Feb 11

Also terrifying: I've tested AI's a number of times on subjects of greater and lesser obscurity, and in every case, the answers have contined crucial factual errors that might easily have been caught by any decent human researcher.

So not only will AI's soon control the world, but they're incompetent.

TheProle

(3,950 posts)
9. They should remain in your chat history
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 06:07 PM
Feb 11

You should paste in some of these and indicate the LLM models and dates when you ran the queries.

snot

(11,623 posts)
12. I saved copies,
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 06:47 PM
Feb 11

but for the sake of my privacy, would rather not share them here. But fwiw, in the most recent test, the AI knew who I am but thought I was dead; in another within the last year, the AI stated that Assange was extradited to the U.S. (he wasn't); and in another, the AI offered a long, bull-sh*t discussion of renowned literary theorist Cleanth Brooks' analysis of paradox in Macbeth, and only after extensive further probing from me, finally admitted that it had in fact never "read" anything written by Brooks.

I don't mind so much that AI's get things wrong; what freaks me out is that they pronounce their erroneous conclusions with such certainty. You have to either fact-check every single detail or not rely on their answer at all.

That said, I realize they may be better in some areas.

slightlv

(7,602 posts)
15. It's not just the erroneous conclusions you still have to fact check
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 07:30 PM
Feb 11

yourself to be safe... but it's the fact that business, medical, and government policy will be built on what they state as true... and we will, no doubt, have no recourse for arguing. THAT'S just plain scary. Anyone remember the old 70's book "Future Shock?"

snot

(11,623 posts)
16. Yes!
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 06:12 PM
Tuesday

I've noticed people in my town are driving much more slowly than they used to. No doubt cell phones are part of it, but I wonder if it's also because a lot of us are in mental & emotional overload.

Like, we're getting beyond shock to trauma.

F-18_AMO

(13 posts)
10. They want us to take a class
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 06:41 PM
Feb 11

in AI at work. No thanks. We don’t need it. Supervisor said she used it to tweak her sourdough recipe. YHGTBFKM. I know that critical thinking is a thing of the past for some, but dayuuum.

Response to snot (Reply #8)

PatSeg

(52,731 posts)
14. "Terrifying" was my reaction as well
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 07:07 PM
Feb 11

Plus it is all happening so fast, with little or no time to adjust or regulate it.

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