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Hopefully ChatGPT can find winning scratch tickets.
To some extent it’s already [inc.com] been done [hellawealth.com], but the lotteries keep making it more difficult to use these processes.
Large language models like ChatGPT manufacture plausible details according to statistical likelihoods. They have no way of recreating the redacted information.
Because the statistics come from large collections of open literature, and not actual classified documents that allegedly discuss aliens, all the newly filled-in text will do is reinforce the same preconceptions that general population already has.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Oh… I was wondering why these redacted government documents regarding UFOs referred to Hari Seldon so many times.
It’s not about making aliens real, it’s about making idiots real. Lunacy sells.
The Large Tinted Dude has claimed lots of powers, but he’s yet to claim having special Area 51 knowledge or powers. Is he slipping?
You mean like being able stop all the bad things if only he had the power? I seem to recall he had that power and bad things continued unabated anyway. A throw-rug is more useful at covering up dirt.
Give it time, he’ll get to the “it’s aliens” part soon.
But oil was cheep, and that’s the Most Important Thing. Econ crashes and deficits are for the little people to worry about.
Thank you. I agree, It’s just putting in words that are likely to follow the previous words based upon other literature that was scanned previously, it has a chance of being correct like a horse has a chance of winning a race after having won other races.
Sure. But being fed garbage is what most people desire and what makes them feel good.
More important, the web sites that put out stories like this know what will sell ads. And selling ads is the only thing they care about (or dare to care about).
Indeed. The whole world is getting enshittification by ads.
As one actual expert explained, it knows what the correct answer should look like, but that’s not the same thing as knowing the correct answer.
And the difference matters.

He found what he intended to find?
One generally does. To quote an episode of CSI, “If you’re looking for something specific, there’s only one right answer.”
Given the whole “deciphering doctor’s handwriting” thing, what could possibly go wrong for those edge cases? /s
it doesn’t help that the redacted information likely contains the largest acronyms known to man that decompose into coded words for a project anyway removing any sort of probabilistic ad lib effectiveness. This is AI generated hopium.
That’s not true. By applying CREDIBLESCHNAUZER techniques to the data acquired via LIQUIDTRIPWIRE, a FOOTLOOSEHOTLINE analyst has a high likelihood of detecting any ROUNDBLUEECHO patterns. This leads to revealing any hidden words behind redaction marks.
(Disclaimer: I just made up all of those all-caps names.)

one tweet raves. “Maybe the truth isn’t out there; it’s right here in GPT-V.”
I think you picked the wrong tagline to play off of.

I think you picked the wrong tagline to play off of.
The nutter probably thinks X Files was a documentary.
Lone Gunman pilot only.
You’ve got it backwards. UFOs planted Hunter’s laptop, and Obama is one of the shapeshifting lizard people.
We’ve already learned that a certain percentage of the population will believe whatever fake news they’re confidently fed.
They’ll treat LLM hallucinations the same as all the human-generated bullshit.

my question is asking do they think computers are straight-up magic?
Yes. They literally do. Anything they don’t understand is magic.
And they don’t understand much of anything.

do they think computers are straight-up magic?
Back when I learned how computers work, I did so by progressing from logic gates to flip-flops, to memory chips and addressing lines etc., all the way to 8086 assembly and C. Computers were quite understandable and definitely not magical, even if Hollywood presented them as such with movies and TV shows showing them conjuring top-models and starlit cops out of the aether or whatever.
Nowadays the level of abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions is so massive that I’m not sure anymore. I mean, how is
FWIW there are open source alternatives…
https://llava-vl.github.io/ [github.io]
The technology is impressive but what TFA is talking about WRT UFO documents doesn’t seem to have anything substantive to do with it.
I would expect anything sensitive enough to be redacted to also be unique enough that accurate predictions of this kind wouldn’t be possible.
That might work, but it’d be necessary to make sure the training model didn’t contain the original document, otherwise it’d be filling the gaps from previous knowledge.
Maybe just try feeding the same redacted document twice, and see if you get the same output.
My understanding is that you would not, and it’s a pretty easy test to perform.
feed a computer faulty data, and it will confidently give you the wrong answer.
Same thing happens when the data isn’t faulty. That’s not what causes hallucinations.
AI training is basically the science of classifying data, almost all of it a tremendously low quality. Maybe I exaggerate for effect but it’s standard practice to feed AI garbage.
The “confidently” part is the real breakthrough here…
In this case, not faulty data, but rather irrelevant data.
Consider what the AI was trained on: The internet. What’s on the internet? Real classified documents? No, for the most part, not. Instead, the AI was trained on:
1) Fiction
2) Conspiracy theories
3) Ramblings from the mentally ill
4) Deliberate misinformation by officials who want to distract the public from their graft and corruption
5) Deliberate lies by a “news” media that only cares about selling ads in their desperate struggle to survive.
Small wonder
But what if the mad ramblings from the crazy conspiracy nuts were really true all along? No secret is safe!
ChatGPT is not being used to declassify anything. Some UFO nutter is using ChatGPT to guess at what the redacted parts of already-declassified documents might say.
ChatGPT Mad Libs?

It would be much better to create a fake document and then blot out the text in a similar manner and see if the chatbot is able to arrive at your unredacted text.
That’s only useful if you can create a fake document that is meaningly similar to real classified documents.
If you’ve ever had access to real classified documents, it’s very likely a federal crime for you to do that.
And if you haven’t, you’re just making shit up.
So ChatGPT finally has found one unconditionally positive application after all!
I’ve found another thing it’s very, very good at.
Think up the most ridiculous headline for a tabloid article, and ask it to write the article. It’s indistinguishable from the real thing (and, these days, may well be the real thing:
Title: Batboy’s Love Child Kidnapped by Mole People: A Tabloid Exclusive!
By [Your Name]
[Your Tabloid Publication]
In a shocking and sensational twist of events that could only happen in the bizarre world of the supernatural, we’ve uncovered a story that will make your skin crawl!
Nice! Not a fundamentally different thing though, just addresses a lot more but less flashy groups of morons.
In the redacted part.

ChatGPT Is Being Used To Declassify Redacted Government Docs
Can’t we just get an ex-President to do this, maybe with his mind? /snark 🙂
Government agencies are now aware of this possibility so you can expect them to take countermeasures.
I’d expect they will start doing a draft redaction then run it through GPT to see if it is recoverable, slowly increasing the size of the redaction until GPT no longer gets close.
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