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

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/copernican

 

[Noodles]

Last year I self published an ebook. Of everything, my worry was people would assume it was AI.

 

[Khamon]

Last year I self published an ebook. Of everything, my worry was people would assume it was AI.

Yes I've been dogged to hell on Reddit for being an AI agent because my posts are "too perfect" and "informative." Dropped a few groups rather than argue I have. Socialization has lately suffered the loss of Trumpublicans, vicious sworn enemies of my AI persona, and now most of the Baptists I know. Not to mention social media feeds being uselessly full of people I don't know, products I'm not interested in, and news items that I don't trust. Thank Heaven for SLUWATBBQVVO because one would be lost without y'all.

/me continues ranting that I also hate feeds resetting every few minutes. Queue something that I actually want to read, get coffee, pee, answer the phone, whatever, come back and find that it's automatically gone! Aggravates me to no end. /r

 

[Noodles]

Yeah, i still lurk like 3 subs still on another another another alt, but getting banned from Reddit has honestly been kind of nice. Also, going back and looking, especially since they killed /r/all, it's REALLY obvious they are trying to hide how much everyone fucking hates all the terrible shit going on in the world.

 

[Free]

There' a hole in my bucket,
Elias, Elias...

Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named 'Elias Thorne'?

Chatbots just aren't very creative.

gizmodo.com

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint research paper first reported by 404 Media, the proliferation of the legend of Elias might be related to guardrails put in place for AI models during safety and alignment training.

If you need to catch up on the Elias Thorne of it all, the paper published by researchers Sil Hamilton and David Mimno at Cornell University is a good place to start. They gave several AI models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Mini, Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5, and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, five different prompts to generate stories. They looked at about 20,000 stories generated by the models and found a shocking amount of repetition: 11 words—Lighthouse, Keeper, Baker, Mayor, Clockmaker, Fisherman, Librarian, Conductor, and the names Mara, Elias, and Elara—appeared in a whopping 88% of all stories.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ooops! (Evernote link because of FT paywall):

KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

A KPMG report on how AI is being used by businesses across the world exaggerated adoption of the technology with bogus case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations.

The October report, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI”, made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including the Swiss bank UBS, the UK’s National Health Service and the public transit groups Swiss Federal Railways and Transport for London.

The inaccuracies were identified as AI hallucinations by the research group GPTZero and verified by the FT. After being alerted to the issue, UBS said it would ask KPMG to remove the false claims, and the Big Four firm on Thursday pulled the report from some of its websites.

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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

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