Margaret Atwood, renowned author of maid story And blind killerThe interview was conducted as part of the Babel Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As is usually the case with these things, the issue of AI came up and Atwood didn’t mince words.
according to there is a time limit In short, Atwood said she once used an AI chatbot, Anthropix Cloud, and came away without being impressed. She was looking for information about the British spy series father brown and well:
“Claude gave me the wrong answer, or he lied. Of course, he didn’t know he was lying because he’s not a human; it’s a big language model… He had studied and sampled a lot of television reviews, but they never tell the end in online criticism, so he was misled by what he had read about the show.”
He didn’t have particularly kind words for people who rely on AI, calling them “opportunists” looking for the easy way out. But of course, as he points out, all LLMs are only as good as the data they’re given, and putting your trust in a machine trained on scraped, previously published and possibly outdated information isn’t the best idea.
“Humans are not robots, but they are opportunistic, so if there’s an easy way to cheat and it’s hard to detect, people will do it… But the thing about AI is that it’s garbage in, garbage out. Even people who use it for commercial reasons have to check it because it makes mistakes.”
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