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The best I ever saw was a reply to a news story to the effect of, "If I were ever invited swimming in the Murderkill River, I would just not go."

(This might be the original. Then again, it might not.)

J. Mijin Cha writes:

My colleague reviewed a paper for the journal Climate and discovered it has been written by AI (citations that didn’t exist). Not only did the journal keep the paper, they asked her to re-review it. We are so cooked.

Climate is an MDPI journal. Finland's journal-ranking service downgraded Climate to zero status.

I would simply not name my airplane company "Boom".

Reported for being too soon

:-P

"How do you keep yourself from going insane?"

"I tell myself I'm a character from a book who comes to life and is also a robot!" (Hubert Farnsworth giggle)

Also discussed in last week's Stubsack.

This was the second fork I heard of, the first being "clbre" ("calibre" without the a and i):

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

Notice that the post is me quoting someone else.

That ramble fails to note the obvious: that the stills from Every Angel is Terrifying are Evangelion on ketamine.

https://awful.systems/post/6446337/9636814

No one point out that "keeping your head while all about you are losing theirs" is also a trope.

Handshake meme of Yud and Rorschach praising Harry S Truman

From the comments:

I got Claude to read this text and explain the proposed solution to me

Once you start down the Claude path, forever will it dominate your destiny....

Growing up in Alabama, I didn't have the vocabulary to express it, but I definitely had the feeling when meeting some people, "Given the bullshit you alreasy buy, there is nothing in principle stopping you from going full fash." I get the same feeling now from Yuddites: "There is nothing in principle stopping you from going full Zizian."

The people who build these products aren't bad or evil.

No, I'm pretty sure that a lot of them just are bad and evil.

With the emergence of artificial intelligence, we stand at a crossroads. This technology holds genuine promise.

[citation needed]

[to a source that's not laundered slop, ya dingbats]

A belief system that inculates the believer into thinking that the work is the most important duty a human can perform, while also isolating them behind impenetrable pseudo-intellectual esoterica, while also funneling them into economic precarity... sounds like a recipe for delicious brownies trouble.

From Lila Byock:

A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education.

The result is, in technical terms, four pictures of a schoolgirl waifu in fetishwear.

Dr. Casey Fiesler reports,

I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings.

[...]

Did you guess "that paper does not actually exist"?

Did you also guess that NOT A SINGLE PAPER IN THEIR REFERENCES APPEARS TO EXIST? [...] When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

Jill Walker Rettberg in the comments:

There’s a peer reviewed published paper in AI & Society called Cognitive Imperialism and Artificial Intelligence which is clearly mostly AI-generated. Citations are real but almost all irrelevant. I emailed the editors weeks ago but it’s still up there and getting cited.

(thinks) groxxing

This chatbot-generated house floor plan gave me a 45-second giggle fit.

(The original post does seem to be satirical in intent.)