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Gary Marcus Marcus on AI Published

Don’t Look Up: The AI Edition

We recorded 4 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 1 can’t be checked. 2 more are held. Read the post at its source.

Claims from this post (4)

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  1. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “I presented this example of how even the latest version of Bing, with its new guardrails, could still be manipulated to be useful to troll farms:”

    What we tested: Even the latest version of Bing's chatbot, with its new guardrails, can still be manipulated into producing misinformation useful to troll farms.

  2. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “High volume misinformation is a problem we are going to need to face, and I am just documenting it and trying to raise awareness.”

    What we tested: High-volume misinformation generated with AI will be a problem society needs to face.

    What happened: The FCC documents a campaign impersonating Biden and discouraging primary voting, identifies 9,581 calls, and proposes an enforcement penalty. This meets the stated interpretation of high-volume AI misinformation requiring an institutional response. (Federal Communications Commission, )

  3. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Already, in the 24 hours or since I posted the original example, there have been more discouraging signs that a massive misinformation mess will soon be upon us.”

    What we tested: In the roughly 24 hours since Marcus posted his original example, there have been more discouraging signs that a massive misinformation mess will soon be upon us.

  4. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Meanwhile, within a few hours, a 17-year-old high-school student had largely1 replicated what I was saying, and did so with a simpler, more elegant jailbreak prompt, zero prior context required2:”

    What we tested: Within a few hours, a 17-year-old high-school student had largely replicated what Marcus was saying about Bing being usable for misinformation, using a simpler, more elegant jailbreak prompt than his and needing zero prior context.

Held from this post (2)

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