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Yeah, Brendan Eich continues to be a gross shithead.
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Jonathan Sadow

2023-03-22 16:28:33


Just deleted my Brave browser.

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#Brave #ChatGPT #BrendanEich #LGBTQ #COVID #AI

Pull quote from New York Times Article: In the United States, Brave, a browser company whose chief executive has sowed doubts about the Covid-19 pandemic and made donations opposing same-sex marriage, added an A.I. bot to its search engine this month that was capable of answering questions. At times, it sourced content from fringe websites and shared misinformation. Brave’s tool, for example, wrote that “it is widely accepted that the 2020 presidential election was rigged,” despite all evidence to the contrary. “We try to bring the information that best matches the user’s queries,” Josep M. Pujol, the chief of search at Brave, wrote in an email. “What a user does with that information is their choice. We see search as a way to discover information, not as a truth provider.”

in reply to just adrienne

Cassandra Granade
Cassandra Granade
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100%. I'm also struck by the entirely strange epistemology of "we see search as a way to discover information, not as a truth provider." Like..... what is the epistemological value of information that *isn't* true, or at least probably approximately true?
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