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Google Paper: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug


An anonymous reader shares a report: Generative AI could "distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus," and in many cases is already doing that, according to a new research paper from Google, one of the biggest companies in the world building, deploying, and p...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Generative AI could "distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus," and in many cases is already doing that, according to a new research paper from Google, one of the biggest companies in the world building, deploying, and promoting generative AI. Unlike self-serving warnings from Open AI CEO Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the "existential risk" artificial general intelligence poses to humanity, Google's research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future. But the most interesting observation in the paper is that the vast majority of these harms and how they "undermine public trust," as the researchers say, are often "neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools' content policies or terms of service."

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