AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned. The country's Department for Education's digital services are seeing more traffic from AI-mediated search and fewer actual page visits, …
A bit ironic given how much LLMs incessantly ramble about anything, usually I find they give me too much information, not too little. I never even have LLMs summarize text for me because I could honestly just scan the base material myself, I really don't like interacting with LLMs unless I have to, like for searching for something that's nearly impossible to just use a traditional search engine for. They're just so verbose and cumbersome to use for just about anything.
Fortunately it doesn't seem to matter, as the zone has been successfully flooded. 10 billion zombies roaming the earth, not knowing what's real or what's a digital hallucination. Learning life skills from a max headroom hacked by all manners of evil to destroy humanity. Children slobber on themselves as they view ticky tocky as their parents, and life skills reduced to lies in 10 second clips. It's all absorbed by the human brain and turned into artificial facts of their own making. Nothing is real anymore.
accurate in 90 percent of its answers
For a government web site that is really poor. It is not how accurate the summaries are, but the consequences of the inaccuracies.
If 10% of what is produced is wrong, how 'wrong' is it? Is it 'this could kill someone' wrong, or just 'this could get someone fired' wrong? It is like rock climbing, everything was going really well until I fell off. Is it 'Barak and Michelle Obama's faces on monkey bodies' wrong, or 'we bombed a girls's school in Iran( by mistake)' wrong?
"We now need to design with the expectation that much of what we publish will be read indirectly, atomised, summarised or reinterpreted by systems we don't control," writes Edwards.This makes qualities including clear, well-structured content in plain English even more important, but also means thinking about whether a paragraph lifted out of context is safe and accurate.
Such is not without its own difficulties for those tasked with understanding its many possible meanings related to future situations ..... very likely historical happenings.
But it sure is worthwhile given the resultant benefits and rewards readily available for employing and enjoying.
The following exchange here on El Reg ..... Re: "Humans won't just be necessary for intelligence work"? ..... gives you an accurate flavour of the steganographic delights to savour and favour.
