b-rain
@b_rain@troet.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine" #school#AI#KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

@stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
@stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
@stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
@stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
@stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
@stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@b_rain This also ties into how the way we design things influences how people percieve them.

Before ChatGPT, there was "OpenAI Playground," a paragraph-sized box where you would type words, and the GPT-2 model would respond or *continue* the prompt, highlighted in green.

Then ChatGPT came along, but it was formatted as a chat. Less an authoritative source, more a conversational tool.

Now the ChatGPT home page is formatted like a search engine. A tagline, search bar, and suggested prompts.

A dark page with a search bar in the middle that has the text "Ask anything" inside it. The text above reads "Ready when you are." And below the search bar there are multiple buttons, titled Make a plan, Surprise me, Analyze Images, and Summarize Text.
A dark page with a search bar in the middle that has the text "Ask anything" inside it. The text above reads "Ready when you are." And below the search bar there are multiple buttons, titled Make a plan, Surprise me, Analyze Images, and Summarize Text.
A dark page with a search bar in the middle that has the text "Ask anything" inside it. The text above reads "Ready when you are." And below the search bar there are multiple buttons, titled Make a plan, Surprise me, Analyze Images, and Summarize Text.
A large text box on the left with "what is openai," at the top, and a paragraph highlighted in green below starting with "ChatGPT is a research laboratory based in San Francisco..." The right of the screen has various sliders for Temperature and Maximum length, as well as a dropdown to select the model.
A large text box on the left with "what is openai," at the top, and a paragraph highlighted in green below starting with "ChatGPT is a research laboratory based in San Francisco..." The right of the screen has various sliders for Temperature and Maximum length, as well as a dropdown to select the model.
A large text box on the left with "what is openai," at the top, and a paragraph highlighted in green below starting with "ChatGPT is a research laboratory based in San Francisco..." The right of the screen has various sliders for Temperature and Maximum length, as well as a dropdown to select the model.