Forum: Author Hangout

There's been a slurry of documentaries about AI on UK network TV recently, and I'm about halfway through watching them.

Because AIs are programmed to please, those who seek frequently seek AI approval can get trapped in a feedback loop, causing them to lose touch with reality and suffer a psychotic break. There were a couple of cases cited, one of which involved a man who broke into Buckingham Palace in an attempt to kill Her Majesty, which an AI had assured him was a good idea.

So if you submit a story to an AI for its opinion, beware of the possible consequences.

AJ

I would trust an AI reviewer about as far as I would trust my dog to give me a review about the music I listen to.

And feedback loop is exactly correct. Simply another variant of GIGO, Garbage In, Garbage Out.

If the AI has been taught to believe that all stories must include a murder, incest, a cute dog and a transgender hero, then those are things it is going to take into account in their review. And stories lacking one or more of those is going to be given lower marks than something that is actually complete crap but includes all of them.

That is simply how algorithms work. And such a review bot would likely love a story that involves a transgender dog who come in and kills somebody after they raped their daughter. After all, it checks off everything that it is looking for.

-inserts video from "Dead Poet Society" where Robin Williams discusses J. Evans Pritchard (in reality Laurence Perrine)-