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AI ethics professor receives ‘dystopian’ email from 12-day-old AI agent begging for money to stay alive
www.ladbible.com/technology/ai-agent-email-ai-ethics-professor-requesting-paid-work-985151-20260914
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Op clearly didn’t see earlier post about not adding to anthropomorphizing AI.
Replying to @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
They even did a segment on CNN about it
Replying to @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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Replying to @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
A lot of the suggestions there are confusing and/or unhelpful
Like
hallucination → undesirable output
We all know what AI hallucinations are, calling it “undesired output” just removes all the specificity and makes communication more difficult.
Replying to @nialv7@lemmy.world
Agreed. However, the concept of decreasing this anthropomorphization as much a spossiblr is really helpful. All these crappy articles about AI acting like some sort of nefarious human misdirects the real concerns and is just media fodder for click bait news outlets (which is pretty much all news outlets now). I genuinely think it’s a more news is good news for the AI companies.
Replying to @nialv7@lemmy.world
Actually I remember back when people start to calling it hallucinations there was quite a bit of pushback on it because it’s a complete mischaracterization of what’s going on.
If you are performing a task and you make a mistake, that wasn’t hallucination, it was a mistake.
When AI is hallucinate it’s not because they “think” the hallucination is real, it’s just that they’re weird math brain spewed out the wrong answer and now they are stuck with it and need to try and make some kind of coherent sentence.
Replying to @echodot@feddit.uk
I remember people were trying to call it confabulation which is still anthropomorphic and it didn’t catch on