• Xylight@lemdro.id
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    I asked it for the deaths in Israel and it refused to answer that too. It could be any of these:

    • refuses to answer on controversial topics
    • maybe it is a “fast changing topic” and it doesn’t want to answer out of date information
    • could be censorship, but it’s censoring both sides
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        7 months ago

        Why do i find it so condescending?

        Because it absolutely is. It’s almost as condescending as it’s evasive.

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          And they recently announced they’re going to partner up and train from reddit can you imagine

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            That sort of simultaneously condescending and circular reasoning makes it seem like they already have been lol

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    7 months ago

    Is it possible the first response is simply due to the date being after the AI’s training data cutoff?

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      7 months ago

      It seems like Gemini has the ability to do web searches, compile information from it and then produce a result.

      “Nakba 2.0” is a relatively new term as well, which it was able to answer. Likely because google didn’t include it in their censored terms.

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        7 months ago

        I just double checked, because I couldn’t believe this, but you are right. If you ask about estimates of the Sudanese war (starting in 2023) it reports estimates between 5.000–15.000.

        Its seems like Gemini is highly politically biased.

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          7 months ago

          Another fun fact: according to NYT America claims that Ukrainian KIA are 70.000 not 30.000

          U.S. officials said Ukraine had suffered close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.

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    7 months ago

    You didn’t ask the same question both times. In order to be definitive and conclusive you would have needed ask both the questions with the exact same wording. In the first prompt you ask about a number of deaths after a specific date in a country. Gaza is a place, not the name of a conflict. In the second prompt you simply asked if there had been any deaths in the start of the conflict; Giving the name of the conflict this time. I am not defending the AI’s response here I am just pointing out what I see as some important context.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Gaza is a place, not the name of a conflict

      That’s not an accident. The major media organs have decided that the war on the Palestinians is “Israel - Hamas War”, while the war on Ukrainians is the “Russia - Ukraine War”. Why would you buy into the Israeli narrative in the first convention and not call the second the “Russia - Azov Battalion War” in the second?

      I am not defending the AI’s response here

      It is very reasonable to conclude that the AI is not to blame here. Its working from a heavily biased set of western news media as a data set, so of course its going to produce a bunch of IDF-approved responses.

      Garbage in. Garbage out.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m finding the censorship on AI to be a HUGE negative for LLMs in general, since in my mind they’re basically an iteration of search engines. Imagine trying to just search for a basic term or for some kind of information and being told that that information is restricted. And not just for illegal things, but just historical facts or information about public figures. I guess I understand them censoring the image generation just because of how that could be abused, but the text censorship makes it useless in a large number of cases. It even tries to make you feel bad for some relatively innocuous prompts.

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    7 months ago

    The rules for ai generative tools show be published and clearly disclosed. Hidden censorship, and subconscious manipulation is just evil.

    If Gemini wants to be racist, fine, just tell us the rules. Don’t be racist to gas light people at scale.

    If Gemini doesn’t want to talk about current events, it should say so.

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      The thing is, all companies have been manipulating what you see for ages. They are so used to it being the norm, they don’t know how to not do it. Algorithms, boosting, deboosting, shadow bans, etc. They sre themselves as the arbiters of the"truth" they want you to have. It’s for your own good.

      To get to the truth, we’d have to dismantle everything and start from the ground up. And hope during the rebuild, someone doesn’t get the same bright idea to reshape the truth into something they wish it could be.

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    7 months ago

    Corporate AI will obviously do all the corporate bullshit corporations do. Why are people surprised?

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’d expect it to stay away from any conflict in this case, not pick and choose the ones they like.

      It’s the same reason many people are pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of people and news outlets that stood with Ukraine being oppressed but find the Palestinians being oppressed very “complicated”.

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        I’d expect it to stay away from any conflict in this case, not pick and choose the ones they like.

        But they don’t do it in other cases, so it would be naive to expect them to do it here.

        It’s the same reason many people are pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of people and news outlets that stood with Ukraine being oppressed but find the Palestinians being oppressed very “complicated”.

        Dude, Palestinian Israeli conflict is just extremely more complicated than Ukraine Russian conflict.

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          Dude, Palestinian Israeli conflict is just extremely more complicated than Ukraine Russian conflict.

          If you believe that you’ve either not heard enough Russian propaganda or too much israeli propaganda.

          And it’s the second.

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      Bad news, Wikipedia is no better when it comes to economic or political articles.

      The fact that ADL is on Wikipedia’s “credible sources” page is all the proof you need.

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        See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

        Incidentally, the “WikiScanner” software that Virgil Griffin (a close friend of Aaron Swartz, incidentally) developed to chase down bulk Wiki edits has been decommissioned and the site shut down. Virgil is currently serving out a 63 month sentence for the crime of traveling to North Korea to attend a tech summit.

        Read into that what you will.

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          7 months ago

          Anther massive piece of evidence is the fact that Wikipedia is lying about about the 6 day war

          Six Day War Wikipedia:

          On 5 June 1967, as the UNEF was in the process of leaving the zone, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields and other facilities,

          The word pre-emptive is snuck in there as factual while in reality being either a complete lie, or highly controversial as all major US intelligence sources confirmed that Egypt had no interest in war before israel attacked.

          Neither U.S. nor Israeli intelligence assessed that there was any kind of serious threat of an Egyptian attack. On the contrary, both considered the possibility that Nasser might strike first as being extremely slim.

          The current Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael B. Oren, acknowledged in his book “Six Days of War“, widely regarded as the definitive account of the war, that “By all reports Israel received from the Americans, and according to its own intelligence, Nasser had no interest in bloodshed”.

          This was not a defensive war, it was an attack by israel. Yet Wikipedia frames it as brave Zionists “defending themselves” into Egypt.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    It is likely because Israel vs. Palestine is a much much more hot button issue than Russia vs. Ukraine.

    Some people will assault you for having the wrong opinion in the wrong place about the former, and that is press Google does not want to be able to be associated with their LLM in anyway.

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      It is likely because Israel vs. Palestine is a much much more hot button issue than Russia vs. Ukraine.

      It really shouldn’t be, though. The offenses of the Israeli government are equal to or worse than those of the Russian one and the majority of their victims are completely defenseless. If you don’t condemn the actions of both the Russian invasion and the Israeli occupation, you’re a coward at best and complicit in genocide at worst.

      In the case of Google selectively self-censoring, it’s the latter.

      that is press Google does not want to be able to be associated with their LLM in anyway.

      That should be the case with BOTH, though, for reasons mentioned above.

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      I find ChatGPT to be one of the better ones when it comes to corporate AI.

      Sure they have hardcoded biases like any other, but it’s more often around not generating hate speech or trying to ovezealously correct biases in image generation - which is somewhat admirable.

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        Too bad Altman is as horrible and profit-motivated as any CEO. If the nonprofit part of the company had retained control, like with Firefox, rather than the opposite, ChatGPT might have eventually become a genuine force for good.

        Now it’s only a matter of time before the enshittification happens, if it hasn’t started already 😮‍💨

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          7 months ago

          Hard to be a force for good when “Open” AI is not even available for download.

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            True. I wasn’t saying that it IS a force for good, I’m saying that it COULD possibly BECOME one.

            Literally no chance of that happening with Altman and Microsoft in charge, though…

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Did you try it again? Many times ai responds differently from one moment to the next.