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The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by gdulli »

delichon wrote: post #5

I think AI has increased the volume of such mistakes, but not necessarily the ratio. Compare this to all too human false reports this week of Justice Alito's retirement. Nina Totenberg was the source and has been remarkably honest about it. She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements," and that was sufficient for her to rush a story about Alito retiring. Given her stature i…

What will actually happen is that instead of a person being accountable and taking a reputational hit, errors will be shrugged off as bugs and accountability will go off into the aether. Like all the other reasons to distrust the tech giants that have not meaningfully damaged or corrected them.

Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by toast0 »

delichon wrote: post #5

I think AI has increased the volume of such mistakes, but not necessarily the ratio. Compare this to all too human false reports this week of Justice Alito's retirement. Nina Totenberg was the source and has been remarkably honest about it. She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements," and that was sufficient for her to rush a story about Alito retiring. Given her stature i…

> She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements,"

You missed the nuance. She had left the press room and noticed many others hadn't; asking about why not, she heard "retirement announcement", but what was said was "retirement announcements"

A singular announcement, that people were waiting around to listen to, would have only been Alito. Multiple announcements could include Alito or not, but would include staff and what not. A singular staff retirement would not have kept people for long.

Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by toast0 »

ludamad wrote: post #10
danlugo92 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or we could just stop celebrity worship

Of all things, wanting to know if someone is still breathing is celebrity worship?

Do you want to know if they're alive because of your personal relationship with them or because of their celebrity?

Maybe this isn't quite worship, but it's certainly related.

Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by IncreasePosts »

toast0 wrote: post #15
ludamad wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of all things, wanting to know if someone is still breathing is celebrity worship?

Do you want to know if they're alive because of your personal relationship with them or because of their celebrity? Maybe this isn't quite worship, but it's certainly related.

Maybe OP just likes the content that jim Carrey produces and wants to know if more will possibly keep coming out

Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by therobots927 »

Regardless of the facts, it would be a lot better if Jim Carrey directly addressed this. I don’t blame people for falling down conspiracy rabbit holes when someone they look up to dramatically changes their appearance and doesn’t say anything about it.

Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by amiga386 »

ludamad wrote: post #2

After being very concerned that the Google agent seriously believes hitting one's jaw with a hammer was a real phenomenon, citing that the real cases must be private, a medical journal mentioned it and they would never pick up tiktok rumours (they essentially did) etc I thought it would have surely been fooled here. I suppose if not, important facts like this could be agent-checked and need a 2/2 consensus in that ca…

> hitting one's jaw with a hammer was a real phenomenon

It isn't? I thought the main notoriety of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavicular_(influencer) was his promotion of "bonesmashing"

Ah, but, perhaps none of it's real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looksmaxxing

> More dubiously, a practice known as bonesmashing, which refers to the act of hitting one's face against objects such as a hammer in order to create a "chiselled look", is often described when discussing looksmaxxing. This practice is considered an inside joke and is rarely done. Sources label it as misinformation.[23][24][25]

There appears to be a number of claims that people have done this, but no hard proof. Very much like an urban legend.

Re: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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Post by delichon »

toast0 wrote: post #13
delichon wrote: post #5

I think AI has increased the volume of such mistakes, but not necessarily the ratio. Compare this to all too human false reports this week of Justice Alito's retirement. Nina Totenberg was the source and has been remarkably honest about it. She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements," and that was sufficient for her to rush a story about Alito retiring. Given her stature i…

> She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements," You missed the nuance. She had left the press room and noticed many others hadn't; asking about why not, she heard "retirement announcement", but what was said was "retirement announcements" A singular announcement, that people were waiting around to listen to, would have only been Alito. Multiple announcements could include A…

> A singular announcement, that people were waiting around to listen to, would have only been Alito.

To me this is a wishful leap, more so that you would break a historic news story based on it. It seems to be a kind of Rorschach test. What do you see in this random blob? Both natural and artificial intelligences have answers ready, so it's a real problem but not novel.

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