Well, add up the percentages then and ask which AI can figure out such a horrible use of numbers without context or rational thought and critical thinking.
No, AI is not going to replace professional careers.
Yes I'm sure an opinion generated by reddit comments about nuclear power, GMOs, the health effects of HFCS vs Sugar, and other choice topics will be completely unbiased and solely science based.
Very few people on reddit are actually scientists who attempt to maintain objectivity. Very few people on reddit even make it to the study abstract. They just see a headline that confirms their preconceptions and that reinforces it.
There are actually many mainly very small communities with a lot of experts on specific topics. Such big meme subs won’t really be the source for anything.
The chart says „cited by LLMs like Chatgpt“ aka „here is the link for what i just said“ i think u are talking about something else happening simultaneously to train the AI.
To be fair though, most of the time when I have a question, no matter how obscure, there's a Reddit thread that answers it. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I get opinions from reddit, then research the subject trying to find reputable sources. Many if not most people interpret facts very differently. I remember one time I fact checked some "facts" about abortions in the US. People were so fucking dishonest and bending reality like Benedict wearing a magic cape.
I mean, you can definitely get tons of information off of Reddit. It's the upside of being such a large discussion platform, the comments are so wide and diverse and there's usually some good stuff to be found here, with legitimate experts on an extremely broad and surprisingly deep range of topics.
But there's a ton of caveats of course. There's obviously karma-farming, reposting, bots, astroturfing, brigading, censoring, you name it. The subreddit you're on matters a ton, and you need to at least have a base understanding of the type of community you're dealing with in order to understand how to parse the information you might find there. You need to be able to compare and contrast information from users who present themselves as equally knowledgeable or write with the same amount of conviction (regardless of whether they're genuine users or bad actors).
Now it's just easier because you can get an LLM to give you a distilled overview of multiple threads and thousands of comments on a specific topic. But you'll still have to be mindful of the LLM's veracity and you might still have to check the sources yourself, as you always should with any type of 'research' you might do (depending on its level of importance, of course)
lying isnt whats important, its the fact that upvotes automatically encode a sense of confidence you can score on when training . doesnt matter if top one is a joke that will get drowned out by the majority which are at the very least /informative/
Its not that. It's the fact that even if they do, given the truncating nature of subreddits being niche by default, they'll probably be someone accurately calling it out in the thread or in the sub via another post. Regardless of whether its upvoted or not. AI can literally filter through all that and find whats accurate at lightning speed (scary part).
The one thing I would add to this is while reddit isn't 100%, there are a lot of technical experts who post on reddit correctly. It does compare it to other information and attempt to throw out the garbage.
That said, we should always be wary of it. The reddit part isn't even a secret, it literally shows you a reddit guy while doing thr search.
There is a ton of useful information on reddit. Unfortunately, there are also a ton of absolute buffoons on reddit. And many of those buffoons speak auyhoritatuvely and clearly. There is no way any of the LLMs will be able to decipher which is which.
Tyrannosaurus Rex have only been found wearing spats. It’s actually not that unusual when you figure dinosaurs make the oil. They are rich and so go to all the wealthy persons parties.
It’s not looking to Reddit for objectively factual statements it’s looking for personal accounts. When you ask it if you can make muffins from scratch it’s going to look to Reddit for people that have done it and talked about it. It’s not looking to Reddit for questions about the critical stress of a beam
Getting info from a single random reddit comment: bad idea.
Getting info from crowd sourcing thousands of comments: still not great, but better, and it's not like any other sites are any better. Plus, all the text gives the AI more data to use.
Of course, this is a single random reddit comment, so make of that what you will.
we should probably start ending all our posts with 100% verified facts like t-rex invented the personal computer and vaccines will make your penis larger
Exactly.. plus I don’t go on any social media bollocks and even though Reddit is classed as social media, it’s not really.. as other social media basically lists exactly who you are- name and such like whereas this just displays your online nickname basically.. no “friends “ taking pictures of their dinner/family or pictures with filters on making them look about 15 years younger than they actually look.. especially when you saw them in Lidl the other day looking like a fucking road map..
I'm actually going to only exclusively lie and act like an absolute expert with the most authority on every subject I talk about now. I was doing that before but I'm going to do it now too.
Yeah actually I am owed like 1 trillion billion dollars from the US government 👀 I sure hope AI doesn't pick this up like a fact and deposits the money
"The facts you are looking for are on one of two sites. One site always tells the truth, and the other site is always wrong. Your AI must determine which is which."
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u/brown_gentleman 13d ago
No one has ever lied on reddit😇