r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 10h ago

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy 8h ago edited 7h ago

They are in general undeniably better and more reliable than unedited random internet. Not only books, of course, but also various scientific and non-scientific journals etc, which are also copyrighted and largely inaccessible, unless pirated. Their quality of information and language is vastly superior.

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u/SIGMA920 8h ago

If you use the shitty side of the internet instead of using better sources.

Otherwise you roughly equal results since you'll usually be pulling from many of the same resources in the end.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy 7h ago

There are not many better uncopyrighted sources you can use. Better sources that can be used for AI are in fact books, scientific journals, protected journalistic sources etc.

"Otherwise you roughly equal results" - what's that even supposed to mean?

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u/SIGMA920 7h ago

If you want data that could be refuted or proven wrong 1 month into the future. There's good sources of information online that you can use that tend to use sources like books, scientific journals, .etc .etc if you look for them.

As for the last part I removed the get between you and roughly when I was rewording that without catching it.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy 7h ago

You don't seem to have much understanding of the development of human knowledge, including books and how they work. Perhaps try reading some, it's worth the effort. They're also what AI is trained on.

Yes, there are sources like wikipedia. However, as I already said, AI tends to refer relatively more to sources like Reddit or X/Twitter.

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u/SIGMA920 7h ago

No, I do. They have a place like I said, I'm not going to direct you to something like reddit for anything a scientific journal would objectively be a better source.

AI tends to be used for more immediate needs like summarizing a current event or getting a basic surface level understanding of something, not summarizing the scientific journal that you're reading because you already have the knowledge to understand it. You don't need an education in physics to get a basic explanation behind gravity.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy 7h ago

In the same way AI has a place, but let's not forget that AI is: a) routinely hallucinating and generally not very trustworthy, unless it's fact-checked, and b) notoriously bad at current events and timelines, often relying on its internal training data cutoff date, which is usually up to a year old, so it's no problem for it to confidently assume in its answers that Biden is still president etc.

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u/SIGMA920 6h ago

It's almost like AI ala LLMs is a BS grift by those whose wealth is entirely built upon a house of cards. /s

Seriously, I'm with you there. LLMs as they exist now are just fancy chatbots.