Meatbags suck at spotting lying LLMs, so let AI narc on itself
It’s a simple premise, really: LogicLens, which lives in Chrome as a browser extension, or on iOS in the form of a mobile app called Receipts, combs through articles, social media posts, and other content to check it not only for factual inaccuracies, but also for bad reasoning.
Key points
- According to LogicLens, it's using an AI system that's “Research-backed and custom designed to outperform general models like ChatGPT & even trained experts.” We’ll leave that up to anyone willing to give the tool a spin to decide, but one thing’s for certain: The world needs something.
- Large language models and image generation tools are increasingly being used to generate internet content slop, and not all of it is as harmless as poorly made commercials for drop-shipped garbage: Some of it is being used to craft very convincing misinformation.
- AI users are reportedly less likely to admit they don’t know something, even though use of AI has been found in studies to l essen brain activity, leading to poorer retention of facts and worse performance on tests.
If the facts of the matter turn out to contradict your worldview, LogicLens’ creators say they’re not trying to be partisan - you may just not be as informed as you need to be, which hopefully their tool will assist with.
Additional details
- To make matters worse, concerns have been raised about critical thinking skills being on the decline, potentially making it harder for people to identify falsehoods on the internet.
- LogicLens and Receipts claim to identify logical fallacies, flag reports that misrepresent information, detect content that attempts to polarize an issue, and the like.
- Or, if you’re trying to fact-check something before sharing it, you can get a more accurate view of the situation, and maybe post something else instead.
- LogicLens doesn't identify the AI models powering its service in its publicly available documentation, but AI is definitely the backbone of the system.
- In an ideal world, we’d all just put the computers down and go touch grass, but we’re not in an ideal world: We’re living in the age of AI.
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