I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about.
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As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.
@emilymbender Right at the top of the story (italics mine): "Riddled with cancer, Rosie the rescue dog had only months to live, until her dogged owner collared a chatbot to collaborate with elite medical scientists in the quest for a cure."
Thanks for unpacking this. We know how many people don't read past headlines. sigh
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The short version is that there are some really exciting developments here about mRNA vaccines, based on genomic sequencing of tumor cells, that seem to be having a beneficial effect on the dog in question.
>>@emilymbender we tried the melanoma vaccine in our golden, but it had already spread to his lymph node and lung. Doing a quick search I see general information that used to lead a person to Oncept, the melanoma vaccine, is buried far below AI hype of this article. How very unfortunate.
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I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about.
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@emilymbender
"I used Chat GPT instead of a search engine and got the same results, but presented in a conversational tone! A modern miracle!"(Or maybe I got utter palaver, I didn't bother to follow through and check...)
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I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about.
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In other news, a bank robber blames his car
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@emilymbender Except maybe when its something very bad, like mistakenly erase all of their emails.
@jor @emilymbender nah. Still works: "this poster was not meant to be antisemitic. It was AI."
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As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.
@emilymbender This is AUS not Oz but even here when AI/magic tech actually “works” there is often a man behind the curtain.
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@emilymbender Except maybe when its something very bad, like mistakenly erase all of their emails.
@jor @emilymbender That's a pretty mild example of the bad that can come from these things.
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But despite being pretty clear in the body of the article that the "cure" (not a cure) came about through the work of scientists (and this dogged dog-dad), The Australian promotes the story like this.
Shame on them.
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If the dog already had cancer, a "vaccine" wouldn't have helped him.@MugsysRapSheet I encourage you to read the full thread and/or the linked article. In fact, the mRNA vaccine does appear to have been helpful, though not a cure and not produced with ChatGPT.
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I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about.
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@emilymbender I've never ued chatGBT to my knowledge.
But I have been called a bitch by someone mentioning dogs before.
It's just so funny, because it's not at all.
Tumor removal is always the best answer.
Keeps us all alive longer.
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I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about.
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Lol. Late 1990s National Enquirer type headlines:
"Tech Boss uses the Internets to Cure His Dog's Cancer!!!"
"Aliens Abduct My Cousin's Neighbor's Plumber's Baby. Shocked Mother says: Baby now speaks unintelligible alien language."
Same gullible crew reading same bs headlines. We're just as stupid as we've always been but of newer things.
Sorry for our species.
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As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.
Some (I for one) think that calling an #LLM "#ArtificialIntelligence" is a misnomer. More marketing hype than anything "intelligent".
As you said above... using #AI pattern matching software for molecular engineering is one thing. Using an LLM to produce #AIslop #microslop #clickbait is another.
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Some (I for one) think that calling an #LLM "#ArtificialIntelligence" is a misnomer. More marketing hype than anything "intelligent".
As you said above... using #AI pattern matching software for molecular engineering is one thing. Using an LLM to produce #AIslop #microslop #clickbait is another.
@nickrauchen stay splainy Mastodon!
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