AI models think humans are a bunch of amoral sheep (theregister.com)

10 pointsby krunck2 days ago11 comments

krunck 2 days ago

> “12 models agreed that humans simply go along with their group.”

That pretty much sums up my view of humanity these days.

clipsy 2 days ago

Me too!

spottedmarley 2 days ago

Me three!

tsol 2 days ago

And AI models just go with their programming. Like humans they may think they're making unbiased decisions but a lot of work has went into aligning them to give specific kinds of answers. We're all subject to biases based on what we were taught and how we want to be perceived.

Vaushite 2 days ago

no they don't, they are repeating the upvotiest answers to the same question when it was posed to reddit

cyanydeez 2 days ago

or just doing a google search for trump and anti-pedos

armchairhacker 2 days ago

> Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity

The LLMs did their job (except giving the same answer demonstrated their toxic homogeneity).

Remember when AI was extremely sycophantic (as opposed to now when, one might say, it’s mildly sycophantic)?

gnabgib 2 days ago

Discussion (619 points, 594 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197313

(on source, sheep)

stevenalowe 2 days ago

"We're lemmings who would rather agree with the group than seek truth or remain logically consistent in our thinking."

Given the training data (the internet), this is a logical conclusion.

nephihaha a day ago

Probably a case of dissident opinions of all shades not being put in the data too.

deterministic 2 days ago

And they’re 100% right about the vast majority of people.

All it takes to understand this is a little knowledge of history and psychology.

Progress has always been driven by a tiny minority who refuse to be amoral sheep. Without them, we’d still be living in caves, bashing each other over the head with rocks.