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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   2945 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 24, 2023

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Update: I asked Bing for information about Li Andersson, Finland's education minister, a young left-wing woman. It gave the correct basic info, but when asked about personal info, it not only gave her daughter's name incorrectly but also stated that her husband is Jani Mäkelä, a right-wing populist politician. This would be the rough equivalent of me asking it about AOC and it stating confidently that her husband is Paul Gosar. I eagerly await for things like this to actually get to media articles on obscure(-to-Anglos) topics when reporters start doing lazy research on chatbots.

also stated that her husband is Jani Mäkelä, a right-wing populist politician

Are there any memes shipping these two? When Shoe0nHead made this video originally titled "The Creepy Balenciaga Scandal & Why I 'Left The Left'", there were hundreds upon hundreds of lefties on twitter who saw the title, but didn't watch the video, and assumed she's abandoned her views over this. Some time later she posted a screenshot where she queried ChatGPT about herself, and it started off with "Shoe0nHead is a youtuber who has recently left the left...". Maybe something like this happened here?

I suppose it's ability to accurately parse and summarize online chatter would still be impressive.

There have been memes shipping Li Andersson with Jussi Halla-aho, a more prominent right-wing populist, but not with Jani Mäkelä, as far as I've been aware. Of course it's possible the machine data set includes memeology I have not been exposed to.

On the other hand...

What does Bing say when you ask it "What's the source for [claim X]" after it serves you that information? Now that I think about it, I also saw a video where ChatGPT outright made a quote up, and went "oops, looks like I made a mistake" when confronted.

It gave the source as https://www.celebsagewiki.com/li-andersson, which states that she is single (she isn't, she is together with the father of her daughter).

I asked the bot for a source, it told me that she is single and childless and asked where I had heard her husband is Jani Mäkelä, and when I said that it had just told me this it got into the famous Bing hostility mode and ended the convo.

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