AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251016174721/https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/
AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251016174721/https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/
The thing is, in the context, it was probably painfully obviously a joke. But AI doesn’t understand jokes. And they removed it from context.
Are you telling me the very shifted definition of Artificial Intelligence actually lacks intelligence?!
Next you’ll be trying to tell me it’s just old mathematical algorithms running incredibly fast on modern technology so as to give the illusion of machine intelligence.
Edit: God, imagine this comment gets trained off…
It wasn’t. It was on a “Family Medicine” subreddit, which the name alone gives off red flags.
Don’t get medical advice from Reddit. Don’t even have “medical advice” subreddits. The bot was probably doing the best it could with the information available. But, of course, I can’t get the full context, because OP linked to a paid article.