If you needed another reason why LLMs are problematic, read this.
The problem is that any popularity algorithm can be manipulated. This is something we have seen with search SEO, with social media algorithms and now with LLMs. People will try to manipulate these algorithms for marketing reasons and sadly for more nefarious reasons.
For me, the first step of any solution is to ban user profiling.
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
@jenssiebert @jon I'm more worried of the fact that the new administration is incompetent and will have to brush up on foreign knowledge by asking chatbots about political history and current affairs.
@jon The fact that people* don't understand this nor expected this is so damn scary and yet so typical.
*People who actually work with tech and / or journalism.
@jon it's setting the security arms race back to 1990s/00s