Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Casey Pelous]

I've been attempting to use MS's AI to do some very light research for a project.

It is just like an 8th grader who didn't do the homework but thinks he can BS his way through with a lot of random nonsense wrapped in "Great question!" and "So many factors to consider ...."

Frankly, I'm much better at that than it is, although it does have the edge on speed.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

CoPilot can search open access journals. Asking for peer reviewed sources on a topic can get you started. Then ask it to summarize.

 

[Noodles]

I feel like the core problem with AI adoption is trust. Not really a lack of trust because it screws up a fair amount. A lack of trust because the same companies pushing it already have spent the last decade or more scooping up everyone's data, making even casual users get turned off from them. Now they basically want us to hand MORE data to them so some "analytical model" can do "mysterious shit" with it.

Also, at least in the US, doing all this at a time when authoritarian extremists are rapidly trying to rise to power and openly pushing that they want to use these tools to root out people they don't like.

Like even if we trusted Microsoft and Google before, we still don't trust some 3rd party not to swoop in and snatch up all pur secrets from our documents and photos we let these things access.

Its just, a shit storm of "no way" on the trust.

 

[Casey Pelous]

CoPilot can ....

I'm sure CoPilot can do many things. My suggestions for it all seem to involve sucking, blowing, or kissing.

(Good suggestion, I will give it a spin.)

 

[Noodles]

I'm sure CoPilot can do many things. My suggestions for it all seem to involve sucking, blowing, or kissing.

It won't do any of those things, its a prude.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

It won't do any of those things, its a prude.

More like COLDpilot, amirite?

 

[Free]

Maglink

 

[Free]

Scammers are onto AI. Of course.

How Scammers Poison AI Results With Fake Customer Support Numbers

"Our investigation shows that threat actors are already exploiting this frontier at scale."

gizmodo.com

 

[Free]

Sure, why not. Waste the time of librarians and research assistants everywhere. They've got nothing better to do, right?

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

www.scientificamerican.com

Never heard of the Journal of International Relief or the International Humanitarian Digital Repository? That’s because they don’t exist.

But that’s not stopping some of the world’s most popular artificial intelligence models from sending users looking for records such as these, according to a new International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and other models are befuddling students, researchers and archivists by generating “incorrect or fabricated archival references,” according to the ICRC, which runs some of the world’s most used research archives.

(Scientific American has asked the owners of those AI models to comment.)

Why not ask the models to provide those comments? Should at least be entertaining.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I asked for a cooking temperature and time in metric, and it gave me the Napoleonic clock

 

[Free]

Was Napoleon known for his recipes?

 

[Free]

Yuck.

The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners

The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.

digiday.com

The Washington Post has used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and length to create custom versions.

“Your Personal Podcast” is available to registered users on the Post’s mobile app, starting today. The goal behind the AI-powered podcast is to give The Post’s audience more ways to access its journalism, in a “flexible way,” said Bailey Kattleman, The Washington Post’s head of product and design.

Did you know The Washington Post had a head of product and design?

Did you also know The Washington Post was once a respected news organization?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Was Napoleon known for his recipes?

If you count canned food? haha.

Yuck.

The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners

The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.

digiday.com

Did you know The Washington Post had a head of product and design?

Did you also know The Washington Post was once a respected news organization?

...when a tech bro acquires a news organization.

 

[Free]

It's hard for me to label the guy who started the largest book seller in the world a tech bro, despite what his companies have been involved with since. But I'll bend to that nonsense.

 

[Free]

Using AI to hack crypto. Why am I not bothered about what some might consider a criminal enterprise?

AI Is Getting Better at Hacking Crypto’s Smart Contracts

And the arguments have already started.

gizmodo.com

 

[Free]

Free, typing in Google search: How to tell Google AI to fuck off?

✦ AI Overview: While directly telling a language model to "fuck off" will not have an emotional impact, using profanity can trigger the AI's safety protocols and prevent an "AI Overview" from appearing in Google Search results.

Not this time...

 

[Isabeau]

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Agreement to Bring Disney Characters to Sora | The Walt Disney Company

Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform.

thewaltdisneycompany.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I asked it for a Hogan’s Heroes reunion in 1950

Hogan's Heroes reunion outline

ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

chatgpt.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

I asked it for a Hogan’s Heroes reunion in 1950

Hogan's Heroes reunion outline

ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

chatgpt.com

Coincidentally, I have decided to name CoPilot "Sergeant Schultz" as it knows nothing. Nothing!