I genuinely can't begin to imagine the horror of being in this situation, can you?

[fgraver@hcommons.social]

@Remittancegirl Then there’s this, related, issue. Microsoft this time.

Gerry McGovern (@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)

"A retired journalist was falsely accused of serious crimes by Microsoft Copilot. The AI linked his name to criminal cases he once reported on and published personal details, including his address and phone number." https://amp.dw.com/en/ai-chatbot-falsely-accuses-journalist-of-crimes/video-77013145

Mastodon.green (mastodon.green)

[gudenau@hachyderm.io]

@Remittancegirl This is the kind of thing that I don't think you can actually recover from because there are going to be people who refuse to believe that Google made it up. Oof.

[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl that misinformation will never go away.
They ruined his life.

[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl I agree. To Google $1.5 million barely rises to the level of line item.

[petterofcats@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl the only problem AI solves is accountability.
“Silly AI was just hallucinating”
“Can’t blame me, it was AI”
“We let the AI make the decisions”
“AI will be be AI”

[scotter@newsie.social]

@Remittancegirl
This is terrible. About the worst thing you can be accused of.

It also gives real pedophiles a way to introduce doubt in their records. Oh, it's a hallucination...

[inpc@go.mxtthxw.art]

@Remittancegirl oofff that's horrible.

I wonder if it's because he's a fiddler and kiddie fiddler is common slang (at least in the UK).

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl This sort of thing could get someone killed. It would only take one traumatised survivor of abuse to go vigilante. 🤬

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@Remittancegirl No, I can't, the horror is too immense.
But I can imagine that it can break and kill people confronted to it, having less means or energy to fight.
And as everthing happens on social media nowadays, their life will never be the same again.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Remittancegirl the horror of having your picture published in The Guardian... backwards?

I don't know, maybe he has a special left-hand fiddle and plays it backwards, but I've never seen it happen.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@Scotter oh yes, that's the nextcproblem. @Remittancegirl

[staringatclouds@mstdn.social]

@Remittancegirl $1.5 million is nowhere near enough, Google won't even notice it

1.5% of annual profit would be closer to the mark

[da_gut@dice.camp]

@Remittancegirl he should’ve sued for more. Or Google might just pay this out of small change to make it go away.

[artemis@climatejustice.social]

@Remittancegirl he should be suing for ten times that much. That sort of thing puts him at real risk. It's not trivial, and Google should pay.

[jik@federate.social]

@2003MugishaPhocit Your response seems to have nothing to do with @Remittancegirl's posting. You seem to have used answering her question as an excuse to go off on an irrelevant tangent in her thread. Why did you do that? It's kind of rude.

[2003mugishaphocit@mastodon.social]

@jik @Remittancegirl maybe I miss understood what she meant.
I am sorry

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@Remittancegirl Sought damages are 1-3 orders of magnitude too small.

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@inpc @Remittancegirl I wondered the same, as this is exactly the sort of error that a statistical confabulation machine might make - and there's no way to fully prevent it from happening!

That's why this technology is inherently dangerous, no matter what guardrails are installed. There are supposedly already guardrails to prevent it doxxing people, for example, yet it can still be tricked into doing so.

[anne_delong@musician.social]

@Remittancegirl

Here's a CBC article about the dreadful damage done by Google to fiddler Ashley McIsaac:

Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac sues Google over alleged defamation | CBC News

MacIsaac claims the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary.

CBC (www.cbc.ca)

Before AI a lot of these summaries came right from Wikipedia. It's for this reason that WP has special rules prohibiting the inclusion of negative information in biographies of living people unless confirmed by reliable published sources.

#AI #music #Google #fiddle #Wikipedia

[rustoleumlove@mastodon.online]

@Remittancegirl

Wow. I feel like 1.5m is crazy low for this nightmare