May

16

The chair recently made a tweet about a Galton book he was reading. I could read the text on the image but had to squint. I later took a copy of the image as asked Grok to extract for me the text so I can read it comfortably. Grok could only extract the text "Natural Inheritance."

After that, it didn't tell me it failed to extract the rest. it just made up its own fictional text that sounded plausible. I quickly learned it was just slop since I had already read some of the actual text in the picture.

My worry is that some people are using these LLM tools for medical records, creating legal documents. The latest AI gimmick is the so called "Agents" that will supposedly be used to file tax returns, book flights and do actual tasks on behalf of humans. My opinion would be to completely cut out all AI tools for critical tools.

Steve Ellison responds:

I am very, very careful about what I enter at an AI prompt, especially when doing proprietary or confidential work, lest my ideas become part of the cloud.

Laurence Glazier comments:

For this sort of thing use NotebookLM. Choose your sources for it, it will give you citation and preview.


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