When confronted by the farmer about the crop failure as a direct result of following the AI’s recommendations, the AI informed the farmer that he was correct to push back on that.
The people pushing these AI chatbots should be liable. Make them do farm work. Reconnect them with the earth.
There have been cases where chatbots were held liable for what they said.
When an Air Canada chatbot told a passenger he could get a bereavement discount on returning from a funeral instead of having to arrange it up front, the courts found that Air Canada was responsible for that advice and had to honour it, even if it wasn’t their policy.
But, good luck getting them to hold the word guessing machine companies responsible for when someone talks directly to it and blindly follows its advice. I’m sure that among the pages and pages of terms and conditions that people just ignore, there’s something in there saying that it’s just for entertainment and nothing it says should be taken seriously.
To a certain extent, people need to make responsible choices. I really hope that, in time, people realize that talking to an LLM chatbot is not ever a responsible choice.
Put them under the earth.
For entertainment purposes only.
I, for one, am very entertained by this.
Now THATS a spicy meatball!
No, YOU’RE a spicy meatball lol
Here is my spicy furball, also made of meat!
vibefarming
BRAWNDO HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE
It has electrolytes!
The real tragedy here is a 67 year old still working a farm.
I know a guy in his late 80’s who’s still farming. He’s told me a million times that the day he stops farming will be the day that he dies, and I believe him. He’s got enough money to retire - he’s just in it for the love of the game.
He’s outstanding in his field.
Have you seen the average age of an American farmer?
Isn’t the average American farmer a megacorporation or investment fund these days?
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2024/02-13-2024.php as of 2022 average age was 58.1 years old. Depends somewhat on the industry often mega corps know they can’t farm and are just Monopsonys driving more and more farmers out of business as they lower prices paid to farmers and increase prices the public pays to them. Clearly not short sighted at all what could go wrong…
Guess he lost his Tegridy
The same generation of people who taught us never to trust what we see on TV. Then the internet came along and they all became incredibly trusting all of a sudden. Maybe if Chat GPT tells them they can fly if they jump off of a roof while wearing a red cape, they’ll finally get it.
What a silly man. He obviously should have just used Grok, so than rather than giving him bad advice it would have just called him a Pedo and told him he was complicit in white genocide in South Africa
Rip. Leopard meet face?
I just don’t get the headline on this. If AI gave good advice it wouldn’t have killed everything. What it should say is the man trusted that AI gave good advice he was mistaken.
The first time he asked he got good advice. The second time he asked he did not get good advice.
“an herbicide”
another quality article…
Well actually that’s a bit more complicated. Some English accents will pronounce the “h” and it’ll sound like, well, “herb”, but other accents treat it as silent and it sounds like “erb”.
I’m going to guess this author and/or style-guide pronounces it “an erb”
“Well actually” uhuh
herbicide starts with an h, end of story.
That’s a common phrasing.
