By Filings on
Society & Culture
Technoethics
Artificial Intelligence
Human Nature
Technology

“as much as AI’s potential can cause harm, blaming it alone misses the point and likely makes these problems worse. Humans are the fallen ones, and that fallenness manifests in all kinds of destructive ways. Machines, strictly speaking, don’t have morals or intentions. They can only reflect ours.” - Breakpoint

Discussion

Tue, 07/08/25

AI is as good as those who are curating its sources. Not only does it sometimes "hallucinate" (come to shockingly wrong conclusions) through incidental issues, but when someone "puts their finger on the scale", you can get things like Google Gemini presenting George Washington as a lovely African-American woman with a much lower bodice line than our first President was wont to wear. When this was hilariously pointed out, it was fixed within a day--meaning that all that needed to happen was an executive to say "take that 'weight' off the model". It wasn't a complicated thing that needed a lot of coding or regression.

Though I actually work for a big player in AI, I tend to scroll right past the AI things when looking things up, and I go directly to sources I've known to be reasonable. Hopefully their authors don't rely on the likes of Google Gemini.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.