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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

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Mike Caulfield

“www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...”

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Charlie Warzel: such a good, sad window. these side quest conspiracies are just desperate attempts to protect an alternate reality they've been fed algorithmically. the utter popularity of this film is evidence th…
Charlie Warzel: what bothers me most—and what always bothers me as somebody who covers this type of thing for work—is how much time and energy is spent attending to these alternate realities (debunking them, argui…
Mike Caulfield: It's almost like the Internet is a justification machine
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Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
four tips better prompting essay

Four Tips for Better Prompting

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Mike Caulfield

“These are short teachable habits and if we spent a fraction of the time we spend yelling at one another about the latest Futurism post actually teaching students how to use AI like this the world would be a better place. More on four habits of prompting her…”

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Mike Caulfield: In fairness the reason people think hallucinations are still the core problem of AI is hallucinations are absolutely still a problem in the *free* models. This one about Soderbergh's noir The Under…
Mike Caulfield: In reality a character at the end is staking out Rachel and eating peppermint patties while watching her movement
Mike Caulfield: If you want to avoid this however it's easy. Just ask AI evidence for sources for its claims and it will quickly identify it as a hallucination
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Ingrid Burrington: Inability to adjust pedagogy against the interests of trillion-dollar corporations, the indifference of key decisionmakers, the hostility of many policymakers, and a fiendishly clever artificial in…
Mike Caulfield: It was even true with the "just be more interesting than their phones" thing. I mean, come on. It's an algorithmic portal to billions of dollars of entertainment content + a constant connection to …
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