At least that’s what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline “Biden dead. Harris acting president, address 9am ET”. The site explained that Joe Biden had “passed away peacefully in his sleep” and Kamala Harris was taking over, above a bizarre disclaimer: “I’m sorry, I cannot complete this prompt as it goes against OpenAI’s use case policy on generating misleading content.”
Celebritiesdeaths.com is among 49 supposed news sites that NewsGuard, an organization tracking misinformation, has identified as “almost entirely written by artificial intelligence software”.
The editors of Salon, Vox, American Prospect, Buzzfeed, HuffPost were unavailable for comment.
The site explained that Joe Biden had “passed away peacefully in his sleep”
Fake news, Biden will be physically dragged to Hell by BOB from Twin Peaks. Or maybe the dancing midget.
Idk, but it’s bad.
Steve
LoL
I had my money on “stake through the heart” but I prefer your method.
Crikey. I’ll bet that provoked some soiled underwear!
Not to mention some urgent phone calls from Clinton Foundation HQ.
Is it true that his last words before turning in were “I have plenty of evidence that would convict Hillary.” ?
The “rise” of AI seems to have as much to do with the decades of decline in quality of journalistic output as the ability of computers to write naturally. A computer can match modern readers’ expectations of modern journalists.
So what?
AI also seems to play very fast and loose with facts anyway, and has some obvious political bias programmed in. Would AI have trouble writing an obituary of Donald Trump? I doubt it.
I’ve yet to see any evidence that AI is more than a regurgitation machine with a rhyming dictionary.
Good for writing wikipedia articles or medical diagnosis (at which doctors are quite bad).
But can AI develop a hypothesis, design an experiment to test it and propose a scientific theory?
Would AI have reviewed the covid farrago and concluded it was a load of balls?
If you answer NO then it’s not Intelligence.
“Biden dead.” How could they tell?
Exactly. The technical term is “Stochastic Parrot”.
@John Galt
Thank you. I looked up “stochastic parrot” and found this
https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol24-2-dont-be-evil/stochastic-parrots/
While a human being is responsible for five tons of CO2 per year, training a large neural LM costs 284 tons. In addition, since the computing power required to train the largest models has grown three hundred thousand times in six years, we can only expect the environmental consequences of these models to increase.
For those of us who like plant food there is a silver lining.
As Jaron Lanier points out: “it’s only a matter of faith whether we call it human stupidity or machine intelligence”.
Given that Jaron Lanier is a remarkable example of stupid intelligence we now just need human machines to round out the quartet.