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I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.

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[–] NoRodent@lemmy.world 94 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The AI is already turning against its creator, lol.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

We built Skynet, look at us!

Oh no…

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

AI feed from various types of information, in this case public information. Public information about WEI consist of a bunch of tech articles criticizing it. Thus, the AI tells you WEI is bad. It's as worthless as the majority of AI based replies about certain topics because it will just summarize popular opinions, as that is the majority of its dataset on a given topic.

[–] quaddo@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago

It might depends on the AI.

I can't speak for Bard, but ChatGPT's data isn't any more recent than 2021. As it often reminds me.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I know. I just thought it was a bit ironic seeing such a strongly worded response from it.

[–] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

“Third, WEI could be used to collect user data.”

ding ding ding

Don’t forget that google is an ad-company.

[–] CyprianSceptre@feddit.uk 16 points 2 years ago

I mean the idea for WEI is to combat bots and AI so it isn't really surprising AI is going to be against it.

But seriously, Bard is just consolidating what it finds on the internet (it's not intelligent), so all this really says is that there are plenty of web articles against AI in its search database.

[–] matter@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Wtf, I like bard now?

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's with all these shitty archive sites, they are so unreliable I'd almost prefer a paywall

[–] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's from lemmy.world, stability doesn't matter to him :D

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My home instance lemmy.fmhy.net has been down for a week, looks like the whole datacentre got nuked

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

wtf that sucks

[–] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

From Charybdis to Scylla

[–] stizzah@feddit.it 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] arne_raulf@mstdn.science 7 points 2 years ago

@d3Xt3r

But on the other side it is going to say:

„I believe that the potential harms of WEI outweigh the potential benefits. I urge Google to abandon this proposal and to find a more privacy-friendly way to improve web security.“

I see your point, but this seems to be hyped a little bit

[–] johnnyappleseed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

archive.is links are broken in firefox due to unsolvable recaptcha

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Also broken in Chrome for me.