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Losing Trust in Google

59 点作者 cheviethai123超过 1 年前

13 条评论

beardyw超过 1 年前
Seems to me that Google is trying to deal with ingrained bias contained in all of the data it slurps up. I think this is an issue that all AI has to deal with. It is inevitable that content which AI produces will become part of the data AI uses to build its models. If no action is take that echo chamber will intensify those biases on every iteration.<p>It looks as if Google is trying to tackle the problem in a somewhat piecemeal way, and have got it wrong. But from an AI perspective its no worse than people with 8 fingers or whatever, just more shocking.<p>I would rather that those working on AI were aware of the issue and getting it wrong, than simply not caring at all. Our children don&#x27;t deserve to live in a world even more distorted than the one we live in.
mgh2超过 1 年前
Google as a brainwashing machine has been voiced before: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@trendguardian&#x2F;a-new-search-engine-1f91a5c05ebb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@trendguardian&#x2F;a-new-search-engine-1f91a5...</a>
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_Reo超过 1 年前
When you’re aware that Google’s “agenda” is just attempting to include more types of people by default in output, posts like this sound bizarre. Some of the scenarios Gemini generated were ridiculous, but so too are the stereotypes like “CEO = white male” that Stable Diffusion and other models would assume.<p>It’s hard to trust that people this intensely upset about Google’s issues aren’t seeking to benefit from leaving stereotypes and other biases from training intact.
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kybernetikos超过 1 年前
Anyone mind summarizing this &#x2F; linking to a different source? For some reason that I don&#x27;t care to investigate too thoroughly, twitter links never seem to work for me.
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bjord超过 1 年前
99% sure this is the &quot;google hates white people&quot; thing that a specific set of people have been absolutely losing their minds about<p>gemini produced images of non-white people in a lot of situations in which it shouldn&#x27;t have<p>I&#x27;ve read theorized(?) that, in order to counteract disproportionately large amounts of pictures of white people in training data, they basically added instructions after the fact in an effort to generate more non-white people, and totally over-corrected<p>feel free to correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, I haven&#x27;t paid super close attention
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D13Fd超过 1 年前
I’m surprised that <i>this</i> is what made the person lose trust in Google - not the years and years of ignoring privacy and treating users as the product.
Iulioh超过 1 年前
I&#x27;m out of the loop, what are the examples of this bias?
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Zetobal超过 1 年前
It&#x27;s not the model it&#x27;s the instruction set. Especially for image generation they just wrote a shitty prompt optimizer which is even more embarrassing.
pljung超过 1 年前
Did he also loose trust in OpenAI back when DALL-E exclusively generated images of white males when you prompted it with &quot;CEO&quot;? And images of women when prompted with &quot;nurse&quot;?[0] Or is this just the old google-bashing?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;wxdawn&#x2F;the-ai-that-draws-what-you-type-is-very-racist-shocking-no-one" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;wxdawn&#x2F;the-ai-that-draws-wha...</a>
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fshbbdssbbgdd超过 1 年前
If you make a language model which just predicts the next word without trying to shape the output to be “good”, what you get is GPT instead of ChatGPT. You try to ask it a question and it will keep asking more questions (with a similar writing style). Or curse at you, or change the subject. RLHF was the breakthrough that fixed this. We used human feedback to train the model to give “good” output.<p>Ok, so probably we agree that the product needs to try to be “good”. Cue a million opinions about what “good” is. Whatever comes out is the result of a value judgment, there is no getting around it. Same issue comes up with images from Gemini in this case, or any other generative AI product. You don’t actually want the AI to be unbiased because that output would be hot garbage.
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knowriju超过 1 年前
I wonder what the folks in Cupertino are thinking when they look at this brouhaha over Google being supremely risk averse and receiving such blacklash. How will Siri answer if you ask &quot;Is Elon Musk just a meme lord or Tech Bro&#x27;s cultural savior&quot;.<p>Side Note: As a person living outside US, I find US focused discorse&#x27;s obsession with race and skin color such fascinating. It is almost similar to people obsessing over the color of a button on the home page when the page itself takes 1 minute to load.
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verticalscaler超过 1 年前
I&#x27;m done with @Google. I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they&#x27;ve irrevocably lost my trust. I&#x27;m &quot;moving out&quot;. Here&#x27;s why:<p>I&#x27;ve been reading Google&#x27;s Gemini damage control posts. I think they&#x27;re simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only product has the same (if not worse) issues. And second, if you know a bit about how these models are built, you know you don&#x27;t get these &quot;incorrect&quot; answers through one-off innocent mistakes. Gemini&#x27;s outputs reflect the many, many, FTE-years of labeling efforts, training, fine-tuning, prompt design, QA&#x2F;verification -- all iteratively guided by the team who built it. You can also be certain that before releasing it, many people have tried the product internally, that many demos were given to senior PMs and VPs, that they all thought it was fine, and that they all ultimately signed off on the release. With that prior, the balance of probabilities is strongly against the outputs being an innocent bug -- as @googlepubpolicy is now trying to spin it: Gemini is a product that functions exactly as designed, and an accurate reflection of the values people who built it.<p>Those values appear to include a desire to reshape the world in a specific way that is so strong that it allowed the people involved to rationalize to themselves that it&#x27;s not just acceptable but desirable to train their AI to prioritize ideology ahead of giving user the facts. To revise history, to obfuscate the present, and to outright hide information that doesn&#x27;t align with the company&#x27;s (staff&#x27;s) impression of what is &quot;good&quot;. I don&#x27;t care if some of that ideology may or may not align with your or my thinking about what would make the world a better place: for anyone with a shred of awareness of human history it should be clear how unbelievably irresponsible it is to build a system that aims to become an authoritative compendium of human knowledge (remember Google&#x27;s mission statement?), but which actually prioritizes ideology over facts. History is littered with many who have tried this sort of moral flexibility &quot;for the greater good&quot;; rather than helping, they typically resulted in decades of setbacks (and tens of millions of victims).<p>Setting social irresponsibility aside, in a purely business sense, it is beyond stupid to build a product which will explicitly put your company&#x27;s social agenda before the customer&#x27;s needs. Think about it: G&#x27;s Search -- for all its issues -- has been perceived as a good tool, because it focused on providing accurate and useful information. Its mission was aligned with the users&#x27; goals (&quot;get me to the correct answer for the stuff I need, and fast!&quot;). That&#x27;s why we all use(d) it. I always assumed Google&#x27;s AI efforts would follow the pattern, which would transfer over the user base &amp; lock in another 1-2 decade of dominance.<p>But they&#x27;ve done the opposite. After Gemini, rather than as a user-centric company, Google will be perceived as an activist organization first -- ready to lie to the user to advance their (staff&#x27;s) social agenda. That&#x27;s huge. Would you hire a personal assistant who openly has an unaligned (and secret -- they hide the system prompts) agenda, who you fundamentally can&#x27;t trust? Who strongly believes they know better than you? Who you suspect will covertly lie to you (directly or through omission) when your interests diverge? Forget the cookies, ads, privacy issues, or YouTube content moderation; Google just made 50%+ of the population run through this scenario and question the trustworthiness of the core business and the people running it. And not at the typical financial (&quot;they&#x27;re fleecing me!&quot;) level, but ideological level (&quot;they hate people like me!&quot;). That&#x27;ll be hard to reset, IMHO.<p>What about the future? Take a look at Google&#x27;s AI Responsibility Principles (ai.google&#x2F;responsibility…) and ask yourself what would Search look like if the staff who brought you Gemini was tasked to interpret them &amp; rebuild it accordingly? Would you trust that product? Would you use it? Well, with Google&#x27;s promise to include Gemini everywhere, that&#x27;s what we&#x27;ll be getting (technologyreview.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;02&#x2F;08&#x2F;108…). In this brave new world, every time you run a search you&#x27;ll be asking yourself &quot;did it tell me the truth, or did it lie, or hide something?&quot;. That&#x27;s lethal for a company built around organizing information.<p>And that&#x27;s why, as of this weekend, I&#x27;ve started divorcing my personal life and taking my information out of the Google ecosystem. It will probably take a ~year (having invested in nearly everything, from Search to Pixel to Assistant to more obscure things like Voice), but has to be done. Still, really, really sad...
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alienicecream超过 1 年前
Honestly, it&#x27;s really fun watching these woke idiots shoot themselves in the foot over and over and then backpedal when there&#x27;s a public backlash. With the school board scandals, Hollywood, corporate culture and now tech, they are doing more damage to their cause than the right could ever hope to.