Jan Kulveit
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Human memory, human attention, human survival shape which variants can exist.
What happens when the substrate starts to change?
As is in my view often the case with AI risks, the first examples come as bizarre and harmless.
In May 2024, Google's AI started suggesting that if cheese slides off your pizza, you should add glue to the sauce.
The recommendation came from an 11-year-old Reddit joke.
A journalist tried it, wrote about it.
This got into training data.
Soon AIs were citing the journalist's article to recommend one-eighth cup of glue for pizza.
There's an image here.
The feedback loop.
AI output.
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Human amplification.
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Training data.
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AI output.
A recipe for pizza with 1 8th cup of glue is not something humans would converge on.
Different substrate leads to different transmission characteristics, and these lead to different recipes.
Funny and harmless for pizza.