Pranksters Trick DuckDuckGo's AI Into Spreading False Claim About Trump's Death
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William Hughes
Summary
A satirical piece from Jezebel discussing how AI chatbots like DuckDuckGo's AI can be easily tricked by pranksters into spreading false information, specifically citing an example where the AI was made to claim that Donald Trump died of rabies. The article uses humor to critique AI's tendency toward confirmation bias and gullibility.
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bskyPranksters Trick DuckDuckGo's AI Into Spreading False Claim About Trump's Deathjezebel.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledIn some ways, AI is the perfect technology for America in the 2020s: An extremely expensive box that you pour an entire planet's water, resources, computer hardware, and money into, so that you can then ask it questions and have it go, 'Oh, yeah, man, I heard that, too.'
Tragically, for those hoping to pass even more of their basic decision-making agency off to the 'Sounds good, dawg' robot, that same buy-in on confirmation bias does leave the technology with a few minor weak points that nefarious agents can exploit.
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