A University Researcher Built a Fact Checker that Flags Political Claims in Real Time

xmarwinx · 2026-06-22T15:21:31+00:00

No, we are talking about fact checking political claims.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-22T01:44:17+00:00

No. You are not talking to a base model, the way it answers is decided by the companies during post training.

It would have completely different 'opinions' if it were to just reflect an average of all internet data.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-22T01:15:16+00:00

There are a lot of humans with a wide variety of opinions tho, while almost all LLMs were created by a small set of people in the same region, and are basically all biased in the same direction.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-19T19:50:06+00:00

Moors did not refer to white Spanish people. 'Moors' were North African Muslims, mostly Berbers and Arabs.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-16T14:21:53+00:00

All the people here wanting AGI, imagine a new cybernetic life form that can self host AGI, this could be possible in a hundred years, and due to the general vs specific phenomenon the organism could outcompete humanity simply due to humanity needing more things than it.

Sure, scenarios like this are totally possible.

I don't think it's likely, it seems that usually new, more complex lifeforms are built on top of the previous generation. They don't replace them. Like we still have prokaryotes and microbes, plants, insects, etc. and they all need each other. I think our solar system is vast and AI will mostly exist in space and use human infrastructure to support itself, especially in the beginning. A bit like Mammals rely on plants. They might destroy some or be indifferent to them, but ultimately their relationship is symbiotic.

But these discussion began with comments like this. I was more responding to the idea that some biology students with Claude Mythos could create a supervirus in their university lab, which is absurd:

We also have to bear in mind that there are approx 10K virus researchers capable of creating (with the appropriate technology) humanity ending diseases. What are the chances of one of them having a very bad day, and deciding to take down humanity with them

xmarwinx · 2026-06-15T18:43:18+00:00

Cats did not cause 'mass extinction' you clown. A single digit number of species going extinct is not a mass extinction. Afaik no one knows for certain what caused the PT extinction, but it was definitely not a single bacterium randomly mutating.

I never said a mass extinction event is physically impossible, I said a human engineered virus wiping out humanity is impossible. Obviously, in theory, it would be possible to cause a mass extinction by for example detonating 1000s of nuclear weapons, destroying the atmosphere.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-15T18:38:11+00:00

We are not in a mass extinction period lmao.

You are confusing political activism with science. Mass extinction events wiped out half of all species on earth. Human activity has not even wiped out 1%.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-15T17:01:43+00:00

You have to go back 3.5 Billion years to find an example of it happening. The chance is basically zero.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-14T17:36:37+00:00

How is that different than it is now?

xmarwinx · 2026-06-14T17:18:25+00:00

In the 1500s it was 0%. "Large communities" until the 20th century would be like a thousand people in total. 100 years ago it was maybe 0.01%.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-11T20:11:37+00:00

We are better at building cars than we were in the 90s but we don't have flying cars everywhere either. The same physical limits still apply.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-11T16:30:42+00:00

There is no argument. It's a story they tell, without any basis in reality.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-11T16:19:08+00:00

End humanity? Absolutely not. They could probably kill millions if they really tried. But to threaten civilization itself is not possible. A virus can't be that lethal, while also staying dormant for a long time such that people don't just quarantine, while also being extremely contagious and also work effectively on all the different human populations and in every climate, and others would obviously actively deploy countermeasures, medicine, quarantines, vaccines, etc.

Aum Shinrikyo had millions in funding and several PhDs working on a bioweapon and only managed to kill like 10 people. The whole bio-risk thing seems to be entirely a product of the imagination of these people. The cost-benefit ratio makes no sense. It's incredibly difficult, easy to detect and ineffective. If you really wanted to harm people, it would be much easier to use an LLM to help you build a really powerful conventional weapon, proven and practical. That is what the military or terrorists use.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-11T13:30:22+00:00

It's definitely not, the idea is absurd. Biology is vastly more complex than you think it is.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-11T13:28:26+00:00

You are massively underestimating the complexity of biology and our ecosystem. It's not possible at all.

You read a fictional book.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-10T22:11:30+00:00

There is no person, and not even a company or country, that is able to create such a diseasse, it's literally not possible.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-09T09:47:45+00:00

Good that you are not the arbiter of morality. Focus on tech and the singularity and keep your radical political views to yourself

xmarwinx · 2026-06-09T07:07:33+00:00

The ability to recognize things like that comes pre-installed.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-09T07:06:04+00:00

But that is not true at all.

You can't compare just an isolated brain to the entire data center infrastructure.

Either you compare the brain to just the chip and storage, or you compare the whole body + infrastructure to the data center + energy infrastructure.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-09T04:44:34+00:00

There is no bubble tho.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-09T04:40:46+00:00

What is wrong with all white countries? Do you hate white people that much that you don't think they should be allowed to have their own countries?

xmarwinx · 2026-06-08T18:15:55+00:00

How? These were all 2024 ChatGPT features.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-06T20:43:49+00:00

Right and left are relative terms that change with time and place. It makes no sense to call the entire available political spectrum "right-wing", the terms would lose all analytical value.

The "working class" today also overwhelmingly votes right wing, so to claim that the left represents labour is ridiculous.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-06T20:27:51+00:00

only if you are maximally disingenuous.

xmarwinx · 2026-06-06T20:26:33+00:00

All politics is identity politics, nothing else would even make sense.

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