This is how AI is a threat to humanity. Not because it will choose to act against us, but because people will trust what it says without question and base huge decisions on faulty information.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

A million tiny decisions can be just as damaging. In my limited experience with several different local and cloud models you have to review basically all output as it can confidently introduce small errors. Often code will compile and run, but it has small errors that can cause output to drift, or the aforementioned long-run overflow type errors.

Those are the errors that junior or lazy coders will never notice and walk away from, causing hard to diagnose failure down the road. And the code "looks fine" so reviewers would need to really go over it with a fine toothed comb, which only happens in critical industries.

I will only use AI to write comments and documentation blocks and to get jumping off points for algorithms I don't keep in my head. ("Write a function to sort this array") It's better than stack exchange for that IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe the real "AI nuking the world" scenario was that it ie caused by the faulty information the AI hallucinated into existence