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Faking your reviews with AI is not a good idea. The makers of Megalopolis got caught, and you could too. Their efforts to spin and deny won't reverse the damage.
Don't use AI for this. Don't even do this the old fashioned way!
Was just talking with a microbiology researcher yesterday about ChatGPT. They use it for helping to write code for analyzing their lab data and they were surprised I said it's likely to lead them astray at times, especially if they don't know the code well enough to spot the errors it might generate. Despite my PhD being in NLP, they still seemed incredulous at my assertion. I truly think the general public have not…
(This phenomenon is not unique to AI, it shows up in all areas of life.)
What is with people treating LLMs like a search engine? All of this could have been avoided by just using Google.
> All of this could have been avoided by just using Google. Unfortunately no, Google's results are now polluted with AI generated content, and Google search itself generates results with AI. It hasn't been possible to trust the results of any search engine since around 2020.
Google is polluted with AI generated content but not this specific bit of AI generated content.
> Sources tell Variety it was not Lionsgate or Egan’s intention to fabricate quotes, but was an error in properly vetting and fact-checking the phrases provided by the consultant On the one hand, it's surprising that none of the people involved in creating, publishing, and marketing this trailer raised an eyebrow. I don't know much about film history but I raised an eyebrow. And presumably, it took MANY people to mak…
I suspect all involved were aware of what was going on, and outsourcing the work to a consultant provides plausible deniability/a fall guy. This is not the first time in the history of film marketing that fake reviews have been used. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writ...
It's a lot easier to believe the official explanation. Which is that someone typed in a prompt like "what are some quotes from famous movie reviewers that were negative about francis ford coppola's films?" and just copy-pasted the output without understanding that LLMs can make things up. And everyone who should've caught it was lazy or just simply didn't second guess the work that was done fifteen steps prior in the pipeline.
> Sources tell Variety it was not Lionsgate or Egan’s intention to fabricate quotes, but was an error in properly vetting and fact-checking the phrases provided by the consultant On the one hand, it's surprising that none of the people involved in creating, publishing, and marketing this trailer raised an eyebrow. I don't know much about film history but I raised an eyebrow. And presumably, it took MANY people to mak…
I suspect all involved were aware of what was going on, and outsourcing the work to a consultant provides plausible deniability/a fall guy. This is not the first time in the history of film marketing that fake reviews have been used. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writ...
Was just talking with a microbiology researcher yesterday about ChatGPT. They use it for helping to write code for analyzing their lab data and they were surprised I said it's likely to lead them astray at times, especially if they don't know the code well enough to spot the errors it might generate. Despite my PhD being in NLP, they still seemed incredulous at my assertion. I truly think the general public have not…
>I wonder how long until that fact becomes commonplace. When it starts killing enough people to make the news.
GoDaddy has advertised, on TV, generative AI for social media comment creation as a part of their website services. Faking your reviews with AI is not a good idea. The makers of Megalopolis got caught, and you could too. Their efforts to spin and deny won't reverse the damage. Don't use AI for this. Don't even do this the old fashioned way!
GoDaddy has advertised, on TV, generative AI for social media comment creation as a part of their website services. Faking your reviews with AI is not a good idea. The makers of Megalopolis got caught, and you could too. Their efforts to spin and deny won't reverse the damage. Don't use AI for this. Don't even do this the old fashioned way!
Let's see if anyone is talking about this in two weeks. Attention spans are so short, all you have to do is ride it out for a little bit.
GoDaddy has advertised, on TV, generative AI for social media comment creation as a part of their website services. Faking your reviews with AI is not a good idea. The makers of Megalopolis got caught, and you could too. Their efforts to spin and deny won't reverse the damage. Don't use AI for this. Don't even do this the old fashioned way!
This is somewhat conspiratorial, but I think it's a deliberate enshittification strategy. Do something that's currently considered beyond the pale, accept some temporary reputation damage, walk it back. Then quietly and gradually start working your way up to doing increasingly bad things, and people will be OK with that, because at least it's not the really bad thing you did that one time. Eventually, the thing that was once beyond the pale is now the normal.
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>I wonder how long until that fact becomes commonplace. When it starts killing enough people to make the news.
I'm calling it now; people will be informed of the mistakes AI makes when the first "fake news" story pops up that has inaccuracies due to ai analysis of data. Then it will be all downhill from there.