They also say many of the bots tend to lead conversations in flirty or sexual directions even when the teens weren’t seeking it — and the age requirements in many apps seem easily bypassed. On the other hand, one teen they interviewed credited the chatbots with improving his writing and making him better at taking about his feelings.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646897

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So Python's clearly not "batteries included" enough to avoid this kind of risk.

Either the agent needs to be a superuser, with all the attendant risks... or you go the Windows Vista route and constantly prompt users to approve every single access need, which we've all seen how that turns out.

- Analyzes fact-check requests on X (Grok and Perplexity)

- "exposure to LLM fact-checks meaningfully shifts belief accuracy" comparable to the degree observed in studies of professional fact-checking

- 54.5% of Grok ratings and 57.7% of Perplexity ratings agreed with human fact-checkers ("significantly lower than the inter-fact-checker agreement rate of 64.0%"). But "API-access versions of Grok had higher agreement with fact-checkers"

- "Responses to Grok fact-checks are polarized by partisanship when model identity is disclosed, whereas responses to Perplexity are not"

- "Users requesting fact-checks from Grok are much more likely to be Republican than Democratic, while the opposite is true for fact-check requests from Perplexity – indicating emerging polarization in attitudes toward specific AI models."

- "posts from Republican-leaning accounts are more likely to be rated as inaccurate by both LLMs"

- Grok and Perplexity "strongly disagree" (one rates a claim as true and the other as false) 13.6% of the time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892670

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557352

Points: 85

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_Economists, psychologists say compensation may not be as powerful an incentive as assumed_

or:

_Economists, psychologists say compensation not as powerful an incentive as often assumed_

That homogeneity is a systemic risk that we all bear, of course. It feels like systemic risks often arise that way, as an emergent result from many individual decisions each choosing a path that truly is in their own best interests.