Russians have infected Western AI systems

[Brad]

A well-funded Moscow-based global 'news' network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global


Might be a prank or might not.  I'm too biased against AI to judge.

[ergophobe]

I am not biased against AI. Realistically, I think our future, and possibly our doom, depends on it. So I'm bullish on AI, but worried about some implementations.

But in its current form, I think it is highly susceptible to... I'm not sure of the word, but roughly cache poisoning and I'm sure bad and simple greedy actors are trying hard to exploit that.

Unfortunately, designing agents that can generate nonsense or false information seems to be much easier than designing agents that can detect and filter it.

[littleman]

>So I'm bullish on AI

I love it for productivity, or use as a natural language search engine, but I hate how it is replacing critical thinking or even how it is already being used to program humans with bad mental software -- half-truths and outright fabrications.