The AIs are officially out of control
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JVAE)
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge When you ask an AI bot for an image of the Founding Fathers or a group of German soldiers from 1943, you expect... something. You probably don't expect what Google Gemini has been delivering, which is a set of images that goes heavy on diversity and light on historical accuracy. And when you ask ChatGPT a question, you probably don't expect total gibberish in response. It's been a very strange couple of days in AI land, but it makes us wonder: what do we actually want from AI?
On this episode of The Vergecast, that's what we talk about. We also talk about Reddit's big AI training data deal with Google in the run-up to the company's initial public offering. (Full disclosure: Reddit actually filed its S-1 paperwork right as we finished...