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Some consequences of LLM ‘AI’
A collection of stories and research about the negative consequences arising from the use of LLM ‘AI’, e.g. ChatGPT.
(There are those who assert that people criticising LLM ‘AI’ are merely ‘neo-Luddites’, intended to mean “people irrationally opposed to new technology”[a]. i invite people to visit the “ICT” section of my “About me” page as part of assessing the accuracy of that claim in my case.)
Dev
“So I'm reviewing a PR from a colleague that was written for like 95% by AI ...”
“AI slop attacks on the curl project”
“AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower”
“Generative coding tools and "security review"”
“LLMs are Bug Replicators: An Empirical Study on LLMs' Capability in Completing Bug-prone Code”
“AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names”
“Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?”
Environment
“Data centers draining resources in water-stressed communities”
“ChatGPT’s Electricity Consumption”
False output
Often referred to as ‘hallucinations’; by OpenAI, as ‘daydreams’. 😛
“Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots”
“AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it”
“Legal Services Board of Victoria warns lawyers about AI in court”
“‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor”
“AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash”
“Why you might want to make sure your lawyer isn't using ChatGPT”
“Norwegian man files complaint against ChatGPT for falsely saying he killed his sons”
“AI hallucinations caused artificial intelligence to falsely describe these people as criminals”
“Hepburn mayor may sue OpenAI for defamation over false ChatGPT claims”
Psychology
“The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"”
“ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI”
“AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot”
“Generative AI: the risk of cognitive atrophy”
”Character.AI allegedly told an autistic teen it was OK to kill his parents”
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[a] This is a significantly oversimplified version of who the historical Luddites were. Quoting Wikipedia:
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality ...
Malcolm L. Thomas argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. "These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made." Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration because manufactories were scattered throughout the country, and that made it impractical to hold large-scale strikes.