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I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.

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[–] NoRodent 100 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The AI is already turning against its creator, lol.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 20 points 1 year ago

We built Skynet, look at us!

Oh no…

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

AI feed from various types of information, in this case public information. Public information about WEI consist of a bunch of tech articles criticizing it. Thus, the AI tells you WEI is bad. It's as worthless as the majority of AI based replies about certain topics because it will just summarize popular opinions, as that is the majority of its dataset on a given topic.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It might depends on the AI.

I can't speak for Bard, but ChatGPT's data isn't any more recent than 2021. As it often reminds me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Useless? :/

[–] d3Xt3r 3 points 1 year ago

I know. I just thought it was a bit ironic seeing such a strongly worded response from it.

[–] WhyYesZoidberg 49 points 1 year ago

“Third, WEI could be used to collect user data.”

ding ding ding

Don’t forget that google is an ad-company.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I mean the idea for WEI is to combat bots and AI so it isn't really surprising AI is going to be against it.

But seriously, Bard is just consolidating what it finds on the internet (it's not intelligent), so all this really says is that there are plenty of web articles against AI in its search database.

[–] matter 13 points 1 year ago

Wtf, I like bard now?

[–] ryannathans 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's with all these shitty archive sites, they are so unreliable I'd almost prefer a paywall

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's from lemmy.world, stability doesn't matter to him :D

[–] ryannathans 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My home instance lemmy.fmhy.net has been down for a week, looks like the whole datacentre got nuked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From Charybdis to Scylla

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

wtf that sucks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

@d3Xt3r

But on the other side it is going to say:

„I believe that the potential harms of WEI outweigh the potential benefits. I urge Google to abandon this proposal and to find a more privacy-friendly way to improve web security.“

I see your point, but this seems to be hyped a little bit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] johnnyappleseed 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

archive.is links are broken in firefox due to unsolvable recaptcha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also broken in Chrome for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Google has a proven track record of being very insecure. Obviously if they implement this standard we should just implement the API on all of our sites to have it only block people using chrome, chromeos or a pixel device and purple who directed to or sites via a Google search.