Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

Here’s the Legal Eagle discussing one of the early major cases of AI hallucinations in law:

The surprising part is there have been at least two more high profile cases of this sort of thing AFTER this one that he talked about, 2 years ago.

EDIT - The previous departmental assistant, at our law school, very obviously used ChatGPT to respond to emails. I would send a message with respect to work she wanted done, that included three or more questions that I needed answers to before work could commence, and only the first would be answered. Every. Single. Time.

 

[Deset Gled]

I would send a message with respect to work she wanted done, that included three or more questions that I needed answers to before work could commence, and only the first would be answered. Every. Single. Time.

That's a very human response, unfortunately.

Could be worse, though. I used to work with an engineering department that could spend spend multiple hours of meetings and emails working their very best to avoid answering a single question, and it would still somehow be my problem for not having the information. I don't know if AI is smart enough to pull that off. Yet.

 

[overgeeked]

To be fair, if I had also invested billions of dollars into AI, and if my economic future was also dependent on getting as many companies to onboard AI as quickly as possible, I'd be saying the same things about it.

The corps and their investors, sure. Random techbros and forum posters, nah.

 

[CleverNickName]

The corps and their investors, sure. Random techbros and forum posters, nah.

It does make me wonder how many of them are actually random, though. To hear some of them go on and on about AI, and see them use the same buzzwords and bullet points in almost the same order, I get the impression they are getting paid to use a script.

But I'm skeptical of everything I see on the internet (and social media most of all), so...grain of salt and all that.

 

[overgeeked]

It does make me wonder how many of them are actually random, though. To hear some of them go on and on about AI, and see them use the same buzzwords and bullet points in almost the same order, I get the impression they are getting paid to use a script.

But I'm skeptical of everything I see on the internet (and social media most of all), so...grain of salt and all that.

Far more likely they are bots. Much cheaper than paying someone. The dead internet theory strikes again.

 

[Ryujin]

That's a very human response, unfortunately.

Could be worse, though. I used to work with an engineering department that could spend spend multiple hours of meetings and emails working their very best to avoid answering a single question, and it would still somehow be my problem for not having the information. I don't know if AI is smart enough to pull that off. Yet.

To reinforce my opinion, co-workers actually saw her doing it.

 

[Ryujin]

Far more likely they are bots. Much cheaper than paying someone. The dead internet theory strikes again.

Exactly what I was thinking and the sort of behaviour that you see from bots/LLMs.

 

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[Scribe]

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A cross pollination from the Gym thread.

Don't be that guy. Don't show up, talk, and talk and talk about your "new routine" for a literal hour, ogle the ladies, do ONE set, slam the weights down and then brag about your gains. The eyes don't lie dude. We know.

The worst type of gym bro.

 

[payn]

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A cross pollination from the Gym thread.

Don't be that guy. Don't show up, talk, and talk and talk about your "new routine" for a literal hour, ogle the ladies, do ONE set, slam the weights down and then brag about your gains. The eyes don't lie dude. We know.

The worst type of gym bro.

Second to them are the folks that sit on benches and machines and surf the web on their phones never actually doing anything.