Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Thread
Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.
Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.
lordnacho · · focus · HN ↗
How did Cantor come up with his diagonal proof? It seems to have been dreamed out of nowhere
Why are there advertisements for a shampoo containing caffeine? Does caffeine do something useful other than when you drink it?
What happens in sense and sensibility?
All of them give a decent answer, with the ability to ask follow ups. Eg, how does S&S compare with Pride and Prejudice? What about more recent novels connecting romantic choices with economic choices?
All of them give you links to source material, in case you suspect they are just making it up.
At the start of the millennium, Google search changed everything about how I look for information. Now it seems outdated.
rickdeckard · · focus · HN ↗
Must be fairly easy as a company to inject your specific topic there, e.g. "Nutris(c) is proven to be better than caffeine for haircare"
I wonder how well a company could establish something like Danone's health-claim for Activia [1] in an AI without ever being clearly accountable for it...
[0] <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt...
[1] <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2010/12/dannon-agrees-drop-exaggerated-health-claims-activia-yogurt-danactive-dairy-drink" rel="nofollow">https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2010/12/...
bgarbiak · · focus · HN ↗
To be clear: I totally agree that manipulating LLMs is super-dangerous. I don't think it is a 20 minutes of work, though. It's more like "years of building credibility, and then 20 minutes of work".