{"id":3881,"date":"2023-05-08T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2023-04-15T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:36:00","slug":"the-stupid-hunters-still-hunting-down-stupid-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/05\/the-stupid-hunters-still-hunting-down-stupid-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid Hunters (still hunting down stupid everywhere)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aha! I was sort of right. Now companies have teams of folks hunting down stupid in their systems to keep the world safe from stupid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Way back in 2015, I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/09\/job-title-stupid-hunter\/\">a blog post about being a stupid hunter<\/a>. This is not a hunter who is stupid, but a hunter whose job is to seek out and eliminate the stupidity in systems and organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0876687a-f8b7-4b39-b513-5fee942831e8\">this week I read of OpenAI <\/a>(fill in the name of any AI-focused company) with its &#8220;red team&#8221; that hunts the answers its ChatGPT provides. When it finds &#8220;toxicity, prejudice and linguistic biases in the model&#8221; they blow their horns and bring in the rabid dogs or something terrifying to rid the toxicity, prejudice and linguistic biases from the model. What&#8217;s a &#8220;model&#8221; anyway, and is the model afraid of rabid dogs or something terrifying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s say it simply: they seek out and eliminate the stupidity in their system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aha! I knew it. Well, I can claim I knew it. Then again, their is so much stupid in systems and organizations that stupid hunters will always have jobs called &#8220;red team&#8221; and some such polite thing. No one, aside from me, wants to wear a shirt that proclaims STUPID HUNTER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Aha! I was sort of right. Now companies have teams of folks hunting down stupid in their systems to keep the world safe from stupid. Way back in 2015, I wrote a blog post about being a stupid hunter. This is not a hunter who is stupid, but a hunter whose job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,469,105,300,58,3,235,306,67],"tags":[240,470,219,301,178,126,236,307,187],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-artificial-intelligence","category-competence","category-stupid","category-systems","category-technology","category-testing","category-visibility","category-work","tag-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-competence","tag-stupid","tag-systems","tag-technology","tag-testing","tag-visibility","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}