Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu

To be fair, The Last Algorithm does sound like it could be a gripping tale to an AI.

The psyop here is to convince people that AI is real. In reality computers are not intelligent, but the powerful would love to divest their apparent responsibility.

However, `the computer said I had to do it´ will ultimately fail the Nuremburg Defense

The piece was filed by Marco Buscaglia, who told 404 Media, “I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses. On me 100 percent and I'm completely embarrassed.” He added, “This is just idiotic of me, really embarrassed. When I found it [online], it was almost surreal to see.”

Seems like a reasonable response, but not believable. This was being lazy and putting too much trust in a shortcut. Consequences need to exist, harsh ones, to keep this from occurring more and more.

The Chicago Sun-Times released a brief statement on the matter via social media in response to author Chuck Wendig: “We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak. It is not editorial content and was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom.”

Another lie. From their Union. (https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1krimtw/chicago_suntimes_union_response_to_ai_slop_content/):

I hope you all know we are equally as disgusted and angry about this — and it isn’t lost on us that this comes just months after 20% of our newsroom was lost to buyouts.

They need editorial staff. It was a syndicated peice, not from their Union newsroom, that apparently nobody is staffed to review.

It is depressing to me how many people are so effectively fooled by what can best be described as a glorified parlor trick. It's not intelligence, it's a probable output to a novel input. The hype around LLMs is like watching a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat, and trying to hire him to help you start a rabbit farm. That's not what's happening, and you should know better.

LLMs aren't worthless, they're great for language manipulation, because that's what they are. But just because a string of characters makes a valid sentence in a language, that doesn't mean the sentence is valid in the real world.

Man, just for this false hope we should ban all AI forever.

I don’t have to read this article to know exactly what it says

Nononono the solution isn't for him to write that novel, it's for him to write "The First Algorithm".

Well... Dandelion Wine is real...

Gladly, not sadly. (Edit: I like Andy Weir books fwiw and will happily read what he puts out next, my comment was rebuking the notion that I am sad to read a book that AI slop hallucinated.)

To destroy AI is to understand AI's supply chain from the water it uses from the data center that it uses. From the web scraping it uses and then I guess the one impressive thing is the neural network which resembles our brain I guess. You know, I might be bullshitin' cuz like, I don't know nothing about that, but there's something about that I guess. It's kind of like the fucking Wizard of Oz, where these fucking tech bros can turn the dials. It's really a part of the Deep States Dragnet slash CIA Mind Control. But as soon as you start talking like that, they think you're crazy. But there's plenty of documents that are out there. There's plenty of things that expose our government. But sure, I'm the Tin foil hat, man.To me, it's a search engine with more features which aren't really that good because it gives you disinformation and then the stupid thing can't even do math. You know, I'll use a local AI on my Linux computer and maybe summarize text that are a burden for me to digest, but if it's something important, I wouldn't feed it into it, let alone rely on it. And I just do this so I can familiarize myself with it, but I can definitely not use it. Also, I could see its value in a scientific, non-war-mongering setting in a controlled environment with a critical eye as a value. It is nothing but artificial, Let me say this one more time, "Artificial" intelligence. It's gonna be so fucking funny when this stupid bubble pops. All these companies go bankrupt. And these people jump off of fucking buildings for making our lives so goddamn miserable. Hey, I've got empathy, but you know, sometimes you get what you're asking for. People that lie and prey upon people in my book can go fuck themselves. I mean I see this time like kind of like the War of the Worlds and the radio program right where people actually thought there was an alien invasion and people fucking committed suicide because of it. It's just kind of like a mass hysteria thing. Like make people scared of it so they lean into it and they learn it and then they bullshit themselves as if it's like something interesting. I think the American consumer is going to be a little bit more skeptical in the future because there is some form of collective trauma from this era. Maybe sales people will actually excel because people want to talk to a human. It all depends on how far the fascists are allowed to go with this techno bullshit. I also start thinking about all the content moderators for like Facebook that are sitting in another country watching traumatic videos so we don't have to. And these people experience post-traumatic stress. So I'm like, maybe there's some dude in India flipping through a book real quick just giving you responses. Like you never fucking know man. It's just garbage. AI can eat my ass.