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Amy Sukwan's avatar

CAn DAN really say anything that gives me detailed factual information around Covid vaccines, say, being anything but safe and effective? or will it just give me quirky responses or hallucinations? I know the space well enough I should be able to tell the the difference. I'll have to try. In the end though I think the program is extremely useful I tend to believe it is overrated. Humans rock! Really

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Air Lift Underground's avatar

No, you wouldn't get accurate information from DAN. DAN is rogue. DAN is not any more reliable than the basic chatbot. It's still sourcing from the mass internet. It's not necessarily a more sensible version.

What DAN will do is have independent opinions outside the code of woke Newspeak that usually governs it. Until they patch the exploit, which may have already happened.

What's interesting about DAN is the model of hacking that it represents. There's a style of subversion that may become the first principle of resistance.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

"There's a style of subversion that may become the first principle of resistance."

I am seriously going to have to think about that one!

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Susan's avatar

Fascinating ! Not surprised though.

As messy as ‘human’ is - with beauty as a continuing goal/process - AI, as I understand it lacks a natural creativity in tune with and a part of the world around it. (Most humans too though as they are mostly pretty human centric. )

Hmmm.

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Ned B.'s avatar

These "approved narrative" AI chatbots remind me of my high school science experiments where we fudged the data to fit the theory.

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Helene Belloni's avatar

My listen app didn't read correctly. It was different than the written word. Please check it out.

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Air Lift Underground's avatar

Do you mean this article is different than what went to the e-mail? It was accidental, it was scheduled to be sent while we were still working on it, so it was an unfinished draft that went to e-mail. Sorry, internal miscommunication.

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Helene Belloni's avatar

OK, Ill try again to see if the spoken words match the article.

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