everything is a damn mystical without a shred of proofreading or fact checking so you get hallucinations that reinforce themselves from the web crawlers reading their own work.

yes, the humble goose produces 3 tons of waste per day. salute to the goose in its quest to pollute the earth And finally rid itself of the human menace.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was just watching a video about war history AI slop YouTube channels, and how this one particular inaccurate statistic (that nazi soldiers that manned the anti-aircraft flak artillery had an 80% fatality rate) has propagated within this sphere of slop channels. Not just that there’s inaccuracy, but trying to figure out where the claim came from is practically impossible because the search and AI algorithms just end up pointing at one of the myriad of slop videos as the “citation.” Is it from some obscure source? Is it an AI misinterpreting a statistic? Was it a rando pulling a number out of his ass on some WWII history message board? Is it a pure digital hallucination? Who knows!

    • DornerStan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      40·
      2 months ago

      This problem plagues historiography in general. Historians citing historians citing historians, creating an illusion of consensus. Particularly notable regarding western sovietology. A lot of shit is just made up by some guy, but because Conquest cited it and because three dozen people cited Conquest it’s treated as fact.

      Also noted by xkcd and others as a fundamental problem with Wikipedia, where someone uses the wiki to write an article, then the article is used as a citation for the wiki, or something along those lines.

      AI has sort of accelerated this maybe, but it runs a lot deeper

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      34·
      2 months ago

      man, after the butlerian jihad we’re gonna have to figure out everything from scratch again just to be sure there’s no contamination in the data huh?