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12 May 2023 by Helen Blunden Leave a Comment

“Why Do I Have to Look Shit Up For This Machine?”

An excellent post by Alan Devine showing his frustration with ChatGPT.

The quote however hits the mark.

Lying, Hallucinating? I, MuddGPT – CogDogBlog
— Read on cogdogblog.com/2023/05/i-muddgpt/

Another good conversation to follow in Mastodon (HT Stephen Downes) in response to the recent Guardian article by Naomi Klein called AI Machines Aren’t Hallucinating, Their Makers Are

Here’s the conversation 👇

https://www.downes.ca/post/75217/rd

Currently I’m also reading Tracey Spicer’s new book called Man Made which also is a great read that summarises all the various new technologies and their limitations when it comes to bias.

I’ll have a book review out on this soon but I need to quell the sick feelings I get in my gut reading about how these technologies use skewed data to create machines and platforms that discriminate, track, harass. If youre a non-white, old, female, you’re pretty much not representative of how the tech was designed….

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