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Duckduckgo's AI search seems to slightly agree with you, meaning Futurism and Engadget:
That means AI really, really sucks and can be manipulated easily.
So... just like people?
I think it's well known at this point that grok in particular has been designed to be easy to manipulate by deliberately keeping it in the dark and feeding it only select information so that Musk can make it say what he wants.
Kinda ironic that you posted a quote from Duckduckgo’s AI to make a point that AI sucks and is easy to manipulate.
Our entire future of internet use from now until the next major technological upheaval is going to consist ENTIRELY of going between different shitty AI models to try to get enough coherent answers that we can possibly, maybe figure out some shred of truth.
While the vast bulk of humanity just accepts whatever their most convenient chat model tells them.
My fear is most will forget what truth looks like during this stage, and how to look for it, such that there won't really be a next stage. Those of us who do remember will be pushed to the margins and hunted, or driven mad.
I guess you didn't understand the nuance. Duckduckgo was requoting Engadget and Futurism. It's a loop of information that is controlled by media outlets chosen by the person running the bot.
This has been the case since it was possible to pay someone to run from village to village shouting things... It's just more now.
Welcome to the party, beers over there.
Yes, LLMs, or what people call AI, are absolutely manipulated easily. Just the way you phrase your question can steer it to answer in a particular way. I haven't been on Twitter in a long time, but I hopped on yesterday and today to check out all of the Kirk memes.
I saw so many comments from people both happy and upset with Kirk dying, that were asking questions in manipulative ways (to the llm) to try and get the response from grok they want.
LLMs are indeed horrible for live or recent events, and more importantly horrible for anything that is super important to not get wrong.
Don't get me wrong I personally find llms useful and I use open source models occasionally for tasks they are better at, for me typically that means reformatting or compiling shorter notes from documents. Nothing super critical.
ddg doesn't run it's own llm, they're just a frontend to chatgpt that (allegedly) strips out all the tracking.