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Google is coming in for sharp criticism after video went viral of the Google Nest assistant refusing to answer basic questions about the Holocaust — but having no problem answer questions about the Nakba.
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How about this: don’t censor stuff.
If you train your large language model on all the internet’s bullshit and don’t want bullshit to come out, there’s not a lot of good options. Garbage in, garbage out
That kind of fits my opinion of LLMs in general. :)
Then you should say that instead of a reductive “don’t censor”. Censorship is important because you want to avoid false and harmful statements.
censor: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable
Removing false information isn’t the same as removing objectionable information.
But it is a subset of objectionable information.
objectionable: undesirable, offensive
Yes, false information is technically undesirable, but that’s not really what that word is trying to convey. The goal should be accurate information, not agreeable information. If the truth is objectionable/offensive, it should still be easily findable.
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Pity we’ve spent the past generation or so destroying critical thinking skills and factchecks
Nah, I think the solution is simpler: multiple competing algorithms. Gaming one system is pretty easy, gaming 5 isn’t. So if a search company wants to always have the top results, they need to swap between a handful of good search algorithms to keep SEO hunters at bay.
Hiring experts is certainly a good idea, but due to the sheer size of the internet, it’s not going to be feasible.
As for the original discussion about censorship in search, I take it to mean intentional hiding or demotion of relevant results due to the content of those results. SEO spam isn’t relevant because it’s not what the customer is likely wanting, so hiding/demoting it doesn’t count as censorship imo.
Censorship is simply intentionally limiting the information that someone else has available to them, and it is bad. Let them curate their own information, that’s fine, but they should have choice over what they see.
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Would be great but it’s rampant, even here on Lemmy.
Ideally the user would be in complete control of what gets censored for them. The service should simply flag content by category and the user could selectively show/hide content.
Individual instances can and do but decentralization means everyone can spin one up with your own rules.
I bet if you looked around there be plenty of lawless absolutist instances that allow all manners of free speech but non will adhere exactly to your own moral ideals besides the one you made yourself.
The same ai that made racially diverse Nazis? Why are Google so keen on rewriting history?
Those preventing history from being taught intend to repeat it.
Maybe it’s regional or something. I’m in Sweden and my nest have no problems answering questions about the holocaust and will happily quote Wikipedia for anything you ask
My google home started answering as soon as the guy on video asked. I’m in the US.