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Ethan “Fink-Nottle” Kocak @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

When my son was about 4, he once woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he couldn’t sleep because “the black rat man was standing by my bed.” I was not able to go back to sleep.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:42 UTC

If we aren't careful with what educational resources we let our kids access we will basically be teaching them a stream of misinformation. So I guess the moral is please do check that materials have a consultant fact checking the subject matter or fact check it yourself before believing the content

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

And these things will stick. Not every company out there has the resources or integrity to have a professional zoologist fact check their content. So it will make its way into your kids educational books, into their tv shows, into podcasts.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

It thinks possums eat 70 bazillion ticks a year, it thinks mantis shrimp can see hundreds of colours, it thinks sharks don't get cancer etc etc So it went from writers being able to use Google and get the odd bad fact...to the top 10+ results just being a proliferation of these myths.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:33 UTC

The sources it has ingested are mostly a) zoo websites (often full of incorrect info) and b) reddit- one of the main starting points for viral animal misinfo

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

Chat GPT has so, so, so, so many misconceptions about animals. Think of any animal myth in the book and I guarantee you chat GPT will regurgitate it if prompted to give you facts about that animal.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:30 UTC

But it isn't just about AI - it's about the enshittification of Google. Because now, when the script writers chuck 'how much does an elephant weigh' or whatever into Google it comes up with garbage AI answers. Sp even not using chat GPT you get chat GPT answers.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.

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