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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.

"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.

In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal

#news #technology #TechNews #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI #GenAI #grok #grokipedia

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dpplggr
dpplggr
@dpplggr@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefan yikes

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Mike Welch
Mike Welch
@mbwelch@twit.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefan this is what made me stop using all Open AI services. https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trump-donor-21273419.php

Yahoo Finance

OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift

The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Simon Dassow
Simon Dassow
@simondassow@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefan Matching image to illustrate:

Hot Pockets packaging with JPEG artifacts, a label saying "JPEG Artifacts", as well as a label with "extra low quality".
Hot Pockets packaging with JPEG artifacts, a label saying "JPEG Artifacts", as well as a label with "extra low quality".
Hot Pockets packaging with JPEG artifacts, a label saying "JPEG Artifacts", as well as a label with "extra low quality".
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Andreas Burger
Andreas Burger
@aburgerabz@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stefan what a surprize!

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dexternemrod
dexternemrod
@dexternemrod@troet.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan
Did I read this correct: A llm got poisened by another llm?

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@dexternemrod Yep, basically.

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SouprMatt
SouprMatt
@mls14@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan It destroys the planet. It makes you dumber. It feeds your private info to tech billionaires. Nobody needs this, and anybody using it for any reason should stop immediately.

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Anders Cornelius Madsen
Anders Cornelius Madsen
@madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan here is the thing as I see it. People has to stop seeing AI as an oracle and start seeing it as a slightly more useful search engine.

I have a local instance of gpt-oss (20B) running on ollama, querying it through Open WebUI and doing web searches through a local SearXNG instance.

It's absolutely fine for tuning a job application for a specific job posting. It works really well as a translator of texts from Danish to English.

Although it warns me that it is no medical expert, it can even help sorting out symptoms without falling into Doctor Googles default diagnosis trap ("It could be deadly but if you are alive in the morning, you should see a doctor").

Seriously, people need to get their head out of their behind and start treating this as what it is: A computer program that can help you with tedious jobs and help find answers to even somewhat difficult questions, but nothing more. It is really good at helping you with something that fits a pre-defined pattern, but it sucks at being creative.

Oh, and yeah - don't use a public version outside of the EU, where it is under strict GDPR laws, unless you like to live dangerously. Mistral for the win.

Seriously, the sky is NOT falling.

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Gilgamesch
Gilgamesch
@Gilgamesch@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan Habsburg AI incoming.
It's finally happening.

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olicorne
olicorne
@olicorne@mastodon.pirateparty.be replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan
IMHO given that those are quotes by LLM, the true issues is with the search engines (or grok's terrific SEO) and not the training process of the models.

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Steve Holden
Steve Holden
@holdenweb@freeradical.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan @BernieDoesIt Slop trained on slop.

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

FYI, not a ChatGPT user myself, so no need to reply with alternatives people should be using instead. Thanks!

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Michelle Taylor
Michelle Taylor
@michelletaylor541@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan I already stopped using it. Found Claude better. But now I only use Le Chat

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Doc Chaotic 🇺🇦🖖
Doc Chaotic 🇺🇦🖖
@pcat@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan Then chuck it. If enough people turn their back on that piece of shit Musk, he'll wither away. Treat X and the Grok shitosphere like Tesla. Cybertruck sales are down 50% from this time last year and people are rolling their eyes when that human nutsack says anything.

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Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
@redcrew@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan Never used it, and have no future plans to use it.

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Brad Macpherson
Brad Macpherson
@brad@1040ste.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan To anyone using ChatGPT now, or indeed at any time in the past 6 or more months; you are an oblivious fucking moron, and deserve everything you get for trusting this long-obvious con job while blithely accelerating environmental devastation. Just stop it. Cop the fuck on.

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staringatclouds
staringatclouds
@staringatclouds@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan Slop feeding on slop fed on slop fed on more slop fed on yet more sl.... (repeat ad infinitum)

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🍂mastodonphan🍁
🍂mastodonphan🍁
@mast0d0nphan@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan How much longer before it starts citing the CSAM that pedophiles are creating using Grok?

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Toni Aittoniemi
Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan Russia has been SEO optimizing disinfo for chatbot crawlers since 2022…

They know what’s up.

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Toni Aittoniemi
Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan They’re not going to make their money back on users ever, so good old political corruption it is!

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sanpan
sanpan
@sanpan@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan I remember the good old times when we could totally trust AI to only convey factually correct information. Those were the days, huh?

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Netraven
Netraven
@Netraven@hear-me.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan people use AI for true information? That's like...the worst thing you could do with AI. It is not an ally, it does not have a unconstrained ability to tell truth nor the capability to identify when it is not, this is by design.

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Knud Jahnke
Knud Jahnke
@knud@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan

Training LLMs on LLM output. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong... Not that people haven't warned about exactly this already a year ago.

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Nömenlōony
Nömenlōony
@nomenloony@nomenloony.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan ooooh AI feedback loop. Should I set the microwave popcorn going yet?

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@nomenloony Might be the time!

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115950818896535277

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Dizzy
Dizzy
@BubblegumYeti@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan yeah that is no longer a viable product

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repo
repo
@repo@mastodon-belgium.be replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan
Stop using AI.

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Petra van Cronenburg
Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@repo That doesn't stop the tech bros developing AI and manipulating. We need political regulations. Which would ease to fine these corporations. @stefan

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@NatureMC Yep, strengthen and uphold labor and environment-related laws. Protect the work of artists.

@repo

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Sam Chavez 🌈🌱🏜️
Sam Chavez 🌈🌱🏜️
@rootschange@federate.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan AI is not real life. It’s little boys playing with algorithms.

https://www.rootschangemedia.com/ai-is-a-proxy-war-for-global-narrative/

the roots of change agency

🕹️ AI is a Proxy War for Global Narrative

Part III: Establishing Your Content Process for Resilience
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@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE
@NovaNaturalist@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan "scale back" - I think you misspelled the word "stop".

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@NovaNaturalist Yes, ideally, but realistically, if you have not been put off by the ecological and social impact of these tools, what are the chances of this making a difference.

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CubeOfCheese
CubeOfCheese
@cubeofcheese@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan ouroborous.png

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@cubeofcheese As prophesied!

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Mota
Mota
@hawyer@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan the worst thing just became even worse

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aprilfollies
aprilfollies
@aprilfollies@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan If true, the predicted “model collapse” would seem to have begun.

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aprilfollies Between that, and OpenAI having to turn to their "last resort" with ads*, I don't know, maybe we're finally coming up to the end of this nonsense?

(*Just in case you missed the news: https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/openais-ad-offering-is-a-last-resort-and-it-still-wont-save-the-company/.)

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Perma
Perma
@Prma@genserver.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@stefan Just a note, the claims they made about Iranian conglomerates are fine. Wikipedia itself also mentions it. But the link to supreme leaders house (even though very true) is not present in grokipedia as far as I can see it.
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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Prma Maybe the site has been updated since the research started?

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Jonas Möller Nielsen
Jonas Möller Nielsen
@jonas175@mastodon.nu replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@stefan I personally use Mistral Le Chat instead of ChatGPT.

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Justin
Justin
@flikkertwink@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Got to love llm’s using other llm’s as sources

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