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Dandelion Break AI “Journalist” Falsely Accuses DA Of Murder…

AgentPete

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I love (er, hate…) this example of AI-replacing-real-writers:

AI Sludge Local News Site Hoodline Falsely Accuses San Mateo DA Of Murder

There’s so much wrong with this crackpot media business model that I’m struggling as to where to begin.

Let me repeat one more time: “AI” is not intelligent. It’s pattern-matching. That’s all. AI does not “hallucinate”. That’s a human characteristic, not applicable to pattern-matching algorithms. AI doesn’t even “think”, because that, too, is a human (animal) characteristic.

This machine/human confusion is quite deliberately being spread by the tech bros / shysters who are pumping and dumping their way to billionairehood. Please don’t let’s get taken in.
 
One thing that infuriates me is that the avalanche of investment money poured into AI has halted research and development into alternative energies as well as construction of infrastructure. Microsoft buying 3 mile island in order to power their AI program is an example of this Easter Island mentality. Every baby programmer I meet is CONVINCED nuclear power is safe and is the only means to their end. Which may be true-but they don't really understand the end that awaits down that path.
 
One thing that infuriates me is that the avalanche of investment money poured into AI has halted research and development into alternative energies as well as construction of infrastructure. Microsoft buying 3 mile island in order to power their AI program is an example of this Easter Island mentality. Every baby programmer I meet is CONVINCED nuclear power is safe and is the only means to their end. Which may be true-but they don't really understand the end that awaits down that path.
Baby programmers? Gee they start young these days!
 
Yeah, not hallucination and not lying, but picking up the crazy that is the normal internet and having no way to differentiate fact from fiction, news from scam. It has no way to differentiate between important and bogus.
It's a horrible, horrible thing, bred by an age in which we've decided that free beats accurate in our news consumption, and professionals are not needed because our friends (and not really friends) hear stuff.
Having spent 35 years, often risking my life to gather news, this makes me quite sad. It does not, however, surprise me.
The upside would be if Google News found itself liable for libel because of this, as I would have been with my news outlets back in the day. but that won't happen.
 
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