Sure, our polls mean nothing, but think about the money you can save!!!
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What the actual fuck??
That's fucking stupid.
You beat me to it. I was going to comment that this is literally the stupidest shit I have ever heard in my goddamn life.
Holy fuck. It can simulate large samplings or it can just hallucinate some nonsensical BS that completely misinterprets the data it gathers in order to agree with the phrasing of the person who created the prompt.
Do the majority of people trust their doctors and nurses? Maybe. Or, maybe it depends on the context of the question.
Do I trust my doctors and nurses are a better source of information than random internet advice and AI generated slop? I would hope so.
Do I trust that the American healthcare system is set up to prioritize the health and well-being of the patient over maximizing profits and forcing healthcare workers to adhere to standardized time allotments of 10 to 15 minutes for every patient interaction regardless of the individual case? Absolutely not.
Yep. AI, such as it is, can be useful for some things. I had had a song kinda stuck in my head for years, couldn't remember the lyrics, artist, or song name - only that it was in french and done stuff from the video. ChatGPT worked it out quickly. On the other hand, I was using it to look up definitions for a legal case I'm kinda involved in that hasn't really happened before - I know I shouldn't, but I'm not a lawyer! - and I found it was using my own case which has not been decided as evidence.
So yeah, they can be impressive but you can't trust these programmes with anything important.
Ah, yes, lies.
Technically, these are damned lies because they've been summarized.
You wouldn’t know my survey results, she goes to another school
I have an environment friendly alternative to this method. It involves tea leaves…
Well this might go a ways in explaining why polling has been so off in the last few years.
Kinda sounds like numbers pulled out of your ass…
Cool, so everything is just fucking made up now. Why even bother with the AI at that point? Just make up stats that say what you want right there on the spot. Its the same fucking different. Bullshit from humans or bullshit from AI, its all still bullshit.
Is there a community for cataloging tech bullshit like "silicon sampling"? If not I'll make one. First thought c/techbrobabble
EDIT: 'tis done !techbrobabble@piefed.blahaj.zone
I hope you're ready to be the only poster until the community catches on, and then that you're ready to play moderator. best of luck
Thanks! This was a spur of the moment decision, but I have thought about moderating a comm for a while. This seems like a good candidate to start with as I have a decades-long back catalogue of tech nonsense to draw from, I'll probably sit down an write out a list sometime this week and plan some posts out. At one post a day I bet I could keep it going myself for a few months, before I take into account the eternal firehose of techbrobabble I drink from every day lol.
Misleading title, Axios did not do this, but rather the referenced a study that they later discovered did this.
It’s on them for not learning this sooner, but let’s not act like they’re the ones who sent it up to try and manipulate political reporting.
It costs less to make shit up that "mimics" the real information. Who would have thought
Great, so now they're outsourcing our own fucking opinions to them
This just in: 95% of poll respondents think tech bro oligarchy is a really swell idea.
We are keen on ai allright. Until we can burn it to the ground.
Wait till these Silicon Sampling reports start popping up in election exit-polls.
We're going to get levels of "Proven Election Fraud" and "Illegal Immigrant Voter Invasion" hysteria the likes of which you've never seen.
Should just have it handle voting as well. They could call it Automatic Democracy.
None of that pesky informed voting, you can just instruct an AI company on what your stance is, and it'll vote in your stead.
Funny thing, every now and then someone makes these questionnaire websites where you answer questions about policy and it tells you which party is most in alignment. Pretty much universally most people turn out to be more to the left than their voting history and intentions would suggest.
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See a dude in a grey hoodie. Ask if he works in tech.
If he says yes, beat the shit out of him. Break his fingers and tell him he should learn to vibe code.
We are living through a great filter event and we aren’t going to come through the other side
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63% of all statistics are made up on the spot
Now you just made it 63.0001%
Now I just made it 63.0002%
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You know what else costs a fraction of traditional polling and takes a fraction of the time?
Lying, making shit up. Which conveniently is basically what AI slop does, and having a person lie is even cheaper than licensing some random AI to do it.
Ah, but licensing the AI lets you blame the AI when it inevitably blows up
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Unfucking believable that a legitimate media outlet would do such a thing. That’s some Breitbart shit.
“opinions” formed from a mix of stolen books and movie scripts, terminally online shutins and fanfic writers, and politics comment sections cannot be considered a holistic look at humanity.
We’re absolutely going extinct. I’m out of hope at this point.
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Surprisingly unrelated to the recently compromised npm package.
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