Subj : Google shutters developer
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Nov 09 2025 09:16:14

MP>Blackburn wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the models output was more
  >defamatory than a simple mistake. She claimed that the AI model answered th
  >question, Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape? with a detailed but
  >entirely false narrative about alleged misconduct. It even pointed to
  >nonexistent articles with fake links to boot.

MP>Some things I have read in recent weeks seem to indicate that these
  >"hallucinations" happen in part because AI is programmed to "please" the
  >user... sort of like a digital "yes man"... so, when it really doesn't know a
  >answer, it tries to come up with one anyway.  That could also explain it.

Yes, that's come up often enough, and you could understand an AI saying
what the user appears to want to hear, but to make up information and
include nonexistent links goes a little beyond that.

As far as pleasing the user goes, you can sort of understand it seeing
the word Rape and wanting to say how bad that is, but it's the part
after that which is scary..

Just today on the news they were talking about a family who is
suing OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Sam Altman because apparently their
16 year old son was talking about how unhappy he was and said
he was thinking about suicide, and the AI offered him different
methods of killing himself and drafts of good suicide notes.

That was in California, there was another 14 year old suicide
in Florida, and they mentioned a third that maybe wasn't quite
'successful' but they are apparently all launching law suits..

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