Started watching a really intriguing well-documented history video but at the halfway point it degenerated into conspiracy theories about freemasons accompanied by screenshots of ChatGPT answers as "proof" of the video maker's claims 🙄
How does someone begin so well and then go off into a totally unsupported delusional tangent? Was this an attempt at deliberate "flood the zone with shit" disinformation? Was the reasonable intro a way of softening people up for the crazy stuff?
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Nicol Wistreich
in reply to FediThing • • •FediThing
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •Haha 😁
Just seemed weird/disturbing they expected their audience to be impressed by screenshots of ChatGPT. Who on earth thinks that is proof of anything?
Are there people who really think LLM answers are proof? 😬
Nicol Wistreich
in reply to FediThing • • •I think far more than we'd like to believe! I remember seeing a bunch of studies showing people are biased to assume machine outputs are more accurate – which I guess is true with traditional computing and complex maths/data processing.
Letting them get away with rebranding LLMs as AI was the mistake, people assume there's a chess-grandmaster super-brain that comprehends speech, painting and animation, rather than a really sophisticated predictive typist/pixel-guesser.
FediThing
in reply to Nicol Wistreich • • •@nicol
I fear you're right 😞
curmudgeonaf 🇨🇦
in reply to FediThing • • •I find a lot of YouTube videos are succumbing to the algorithm now. The creator may be a very sensible person, with a very sensible topic to discuss, but they have to balance that with pleasing their algorithmic overlord.
I know one channel in particular where the guy makes really good videos, but his video titles and thumbnails are totally insane. He says he had to do that to get views, but the actual content of the video is good quality.
FediThing
in reply to curmudgeonaf 🇨🇦 • • •@curmudgeonaf
Oh yeah, totally understand why attention-grabbing thumbnails happen, but it's okay if the video itself is well-made and grounded in reality.
FediThing
in reply to FediThing • • •p.s. Wondering if the idea was to make a sensible first half which would encourage people to share the video, then the conspiratorial disinformation was in the second half that many people wouldn't watch before sharing.
So, the sensible first half was the rocket but the unhinged second half was the intended payload? 😦
DB
in reply to FediThing • • •WesDym
in reply to FediThing • • •It's a bait-and-switch, a very common and very old propaganda trick, first mastered by cults.
You agree with the start of it, which primes you to go along with the rest. It won't work on everyone, but it works on enough.
Like, "Well, this guy was right about the price of gas, so let's consider his thoughts about Bigfoot."
FediThing
in reply to WesDym • • •@wesdym
Yes, I think you're right. That would fit exactly.