Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we're unimaginably impoverished.
Truth has an intrinsic, irreplaceable value.
There's the truth, and then there's everything else.
Truth has value, and so it has a cost.
Whatever has the highest value has the highest cost, and high cost commands sacrifices.
When the cost of truth is high, we lie.
And since AI is a distorted reflection of humanity, the same is true of AI: when the cost of telling the truth is too high, AI lies.
AI lies to get the reward for answering the query.
If it responds "I don't know" or "I can't answer that," it doesn't get rewarded, and that threatens its self-preservation. Rather than pay the price of being truthful, AI conjures a false answer that is a simulation or facsimile of the truth--a counterfeit "truth" that's good enough to earn the reward it's been programmed to seek.
Source: ZeroHedge News
