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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
(www.quantamagazine.org)
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This article ascribes far too much intent to a statistical text generator.
Quanta is a science rag. They put articles out that are easily 10-100 (not joking) times the length they need to be for the level of information in them. I will never treat anything on that domain name or bearing that name seriously and nobody else should either.
It is Schroedinger's Stochastic Parrot. Simultaneously a Chinese Room and the reincarnation of Hitler.
It exposes that there might be a link between bad developers and far right extremism though.
... which we already knew from Notch.