New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…
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No need for AI for this, Google already do it since years https://tech.eu/2024/01/28/no-one-is-coming-to-save-us-from-big-tech/
Report this post. It does not belong here. We should not be part of this spread of the misinformation. Bard is NOT an information source.
The post title should read “Forbes uses AI to write B.S articles to scare people and get clicks”.
Public service announcement: this article seems to be written like their only source was asking Bard some questions. If you trust Bard enough to tell you Google’s plans, you may as well be asking it when the second coming is happening, because it’ll be just as confident when it hallucinates that answer too.
Unbelievable. If you’re not running a custom ROM, get Canta set up and strip out as much Google malware as you can because this is only gonna get worse.
Yeah let’s use End to end encrypted, open source messaging apps like Signal please.
This new Google thing probably applies to their own proprietary messaging apps like Android messages, Hangouts and Gmail. Tbh, I’m more surprised they weren’t already doing this. Fuck SMS, fuck RCS. E2EE private FOSS messaging standards for me please.
I had to start using Google Messages recently because Signal dropped SMS support. It sounds like it’s time to switch SMS app yet again. Sigh.
Give QKSMS a try. Very good FOSS app, especially if you install from F-Droid. Alternatively, Connect You doubles as a FOSS contacts and SMS app. Also, the Fossify fork of Simple Mobile Tools’ Simple SMS app is now out and picks up where Simple SMS left off.
What the actual fuck
But then they couldn’t spy on you or charge extra for this “cloud service” whenever they decide to.
What the actual fuck.
I’m tired of constantly running in to the basic lack of understanding that LLMs are not knowledge systems. They emulate language, and produce plausible sentences. This journalist is using the output of a LLM as a source of knowledge… What a fucking disgrace this should be for Forbes.
Imagine a journalist just quoting a conversation with their 10 year old, where they played a game of “whatever you do, you have to pretend like you really know what you’re talking about. Do not be unsure about anything, ok?”, and used the output as a source for actual facts.
If you use ChatGPT, or Bard, or any LLM for anything beyond creative output, or with the required comprehension to vet the output, just stop. Don’t use tools you don’t understand the function or limitations of.
I’ve already had to spend hours correcting a fundamental misconception someone got from ChatGPT, which was part of a safety mechanism of medical software. I’ve also had the displeasure of finding self-contradicting documentation someone placed in a README, which was a copy-paste from ChatGPT.
It’s such a powerful tool and utility if you know what it can help with. But it requires a basic understanding, that too many people are either too lazy to make the effort for, or just lacking critical thought processes, and “it sounded really plausible”, (the full extent of what it’s designed to do) fools them completely.
LMAO I opened the link expecting an article, and I got a steady flow of quotations, but nothing to indicate who is being quoted. At the very end, the sentence “For its part, Bard states…” is used, and I can think of no clearer way to display your fundamental misunderstanding of AI. Bard can’t “state” shit in any official capacity. Bard is the same caliber of LLM as GPT, and both have a documented tendency to hallucinate.
It’s all hallucinations, always, with only a few exceptions. The hallucinations just have some overlap with reality, that’s all.
You are correct, I too tend to humanize LLMs to some degree.
Ok maybe we need to start using text that can poison the ai
Google “Don’t be evil” RIP 2001 - 2018
I’m sorry, is the article quoting a fucking LLM as the interviewee? What the fuck is this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Doesn’t matter if you turn it off, think about it. Who are you texting? Will they have turned it off?
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As soon as someone makes an SMS app that can filter the 5 spam texts I get every day, I’ll delete my Google account.
If you don’t share your number and don’t give any indication you are a person they will go away.
Its been a long time since I received spam.
You don’t have to share your number to get spam messages - I get weekly spam texts for “Susan” (not my name), which I never interact with but have been coming from random numbers for years.
Once your # is on a list, whether you put it there or not, it never leaves.
I’m the only one who has ever had this phone no., but if I were to swap now, 99% chance I’d get a reused number, which would probably come already loaded on a million different spam lists. There’s no winning.
This is 1000% not true.
They don’t care if you don’t answer. It costs them $0 to text you.
My profession makes me a target for a wide variety of advertising and my phone number is required by law to be listed publicly.
I already don’t. Mostly because Google Messages filters them in a way that I never even see them unless I’m actively looking. It was only when I got an iPhone that I realized exactly how horrific it is.
Well, that’s something I’ll want to turn off, though all they’ll get from me is random appointment reminders and confirmation codes.