Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money

I’ve been messing around with various AI tools these past weeks, and I have to admit—color me impressed. The bots are chatty, the answers are smooth, and if you’re not afraid to yank the curtain back and actually do the work (i.e. write prompts that don’t sound like a bored teenager phoning in a school essay), they can be scarily useful. The better I prompt, the better it dances. It’s like teaching a parrot to quote Nietzsche—equal parts hilarious and unsettling. That said, everything I publish is still my own deranged output. I don’t pretend it’s objective, balanced, or generated by some ethereal machine intelligence. It’s me—wiring frayed, sarcasm intact. And AI models, like climate models, are just that: models. They’ll spit out whatever you feed them, wearing the lab coat of legitimacy while quietly rearranging your reality. In the right hands, they’re sharp tools. In the wrong ones? Blunt instruments of mass idiocy. 

Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money

Here is how the political magazine Nature opened its article “25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding: Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of fore…

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