Re: AI catfishing [was Re: ChatGPT and ontologies]

> Basically, there was a live human answering through a synthetic voice

so basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk all over again
;)

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 10:44, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually Chaals  and all
>
> *....   including passing AI off as human work*
> I have seen humans passing themselves for AI
>
> At a well known conference in HKong a few years back, and some young folks
> presented their
> incredible talking head, which was supposedly a robotic head capable of
> intelligent conversation
> The talking head was asked questions (by its develoipers) and it replied
> elegantly, knowledgeably, thoroughly
> Like a well trained scholar  - I had the impression it could be easily
> staged (but how?)
> Basically, there was a live human answering through a synthetic voice
> I hear many robotic companies are using real humans in the AI brain to get
> investors to fund them
>
> Just to say that some regulation can help to guide good practice but there
> are more foundational issues in AI relating to human nature
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 4:49 PM Chaals Nevile <chaals@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 13 February 2023 07:13:57 (+01:00), Paola Di Maio wrote:
>>
>> Can we demand/expect that AI adheres to better standards than humans?
>>
>>
>> Sure. And we should. What's the point of working on something that's
>> *less* reliable than me as a source of information?
>>
>> (We insist that kids don't tell lies, even though many of us feed them
>> nonsense about tooth fairies, mice that leave money, a fat man whose
>> reindeer pull an impossibly-loaded sleigh through the sky at incredible
>> speed, etc etc...).
>>
>> We can expect humans to keep cheating, including passing AI off as human
>> work and therefore claiming it need not adhere to good standards of
>> behaviour.
>>
>> But setting "moral" standards we aspire to is a good first step in them
>> actually being standards that we live by, and build by.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> --
>> Chaals Nevile
>> Using Fastmail - it's worth it
>>
>

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