The Lost Hard Drive Worth Millions & Toxic AI Chatbots with Jag Sharma, Felina Tan and Jason Kapadia #27

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What happens when AI amplifies the most toxic traits of humanity?

The racist, anti-semetic and inflammatory views being spewed from Meta’s new chatbot hold a huge mirror to the sources on which it was trained, and poses a question over the role a chatbot should play.

We dive into this sensitive topic on Disconnected this week, along with the latest on possibly the world’s most valuable hard drive to find its way into landfill, DALL-E 2’s incredible AI artistry, and much more.

This episode of Disconnected covers:

The hard drive lost to landfill worth millions in bitcoinMeta’s latest chatbot and its shocking opinionsDALL-E 2’s incredible use of AI and its impact on artistry How vital it is to consider the human input to AI systemsWhether Snap’s new parental controls can really workThe campaign to Make Instagram Instagram Again

Links and references at: https://disconnectedpodcast.com/