Lara Becker

Information Architect & UX Designer, Co-organizer for BigDesign Conference, gamer & technophile. I like to humanize and customize!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Ali Madani @thisismadani]

Can AI rewrite our human genome? ⌨️🧬

Today, we announce the successful editing of DNA in human cells with gene editors fully designed with AI. Not only that, we've decided to freely release the molecules under the @ProfluentBio OpenCRISPR initiative.

Lots to unpack👇

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

⚡ Can't believe this worked so well.

From my crappy hand sketch to a beautiful drawing in 7 minutes.

These are the steps I followed so you can do it too:

[udio @udiomusic]

Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music in your favorite styles with intuitive and powerful text-prompting.

1/11

[Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc @apples_jimmy]

“ wow I didn’t expect this to be here for another 2 - 3 years, my timelines have shrunk “

It’s only March.

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

Few understand this

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

What did I just watch?

Star Wars x AI

Mind blown, creative humans using AI to dream up a very different Star Wars.

By @douggypledger & @osymyso

[✨Story Bard✨ @Story_Bard]

Top A.I. Tool Reviewer initial reaction to StoryBard @PhillTurner_ #storybard #AI #video

[Lara Becker @lara_becker]

@gvrizzo @ailogoart @ProductHunt Yes. I didn't get any results :(

[Rufus Deuchler @rufusd]

Did you know that you can zoom into your vectors up to 64000% in Adobe Illustrator? Check out what I discovered today.

[PIJAlance Magazine @PIJAlanceMag]

From Robert Green, the author of 48 Laws of Power, get a dose.
#power #qotd #motivation

[Lara Becker @lara_becker]

I just earned the 'Land of the Free (Level 5)' badge on @untappd! https://t.co/TkYTvLMdKy

[OECD Development @OECDdev]

💭 "Installing an antivirus in a dishwasher will not work, and firewall software cannot run on coffee machines."

Mikko Hyppönen of @WithSecure 💬 the #InternetOfThings, connected devices and the growing need to improve security: https://t.co/MVM8LoTzfs

[Al Foran @ImpressionistAL]

One of the greatest films ever turns 25 this year, it gets infinitely better & funnier after every viewing, the Dude abides. 😎

[Chris Wysopal @WeldPond]

"Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo."

Looks like there will be a market for AI vuln remediation! https://t.co/RH4npRNdxD

[History Photographed @HistoryInPics]

First ever recorded snowball fight (1897)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

In summary:

(1) Family time is limited—cherish it.

(2) Friend time is limited—prioritize real ones.

(3) Partner time is significant—never settle.

(4) Children time is precious—be present.

(5) Coworker time is significant—find energy.

(6) Alone time is highest—love yourself.

[Asyraf Hussin @asyrafhussin4]

Draw Johnny Depp using CSS

CodePen : https://t.co/ozCjENPQOj