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Today I encountered my first AI-generated news article that included a manufactured quote from me on a topic I did not speak or post about, just in case you're wondering how AI is going.
Feb 19 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadSteve Thompson PhDFeb 19

@evacide

Are you saying it read your mind? Wowsa! 😱

Show threadAmiekFeb 19
@evacide you’re lucky, according to chat gpt I’m dead.
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Feb 19
@Amiek @evacide You guys are losers. According to ChatGPT I'm on the faculty of a local law school, which should make my mom really proud.
Show threadFelipe Feb 19
@msbellows @Amiek @evacide it said I am Twitch streamer 
Show threadMark T. TomczakFeb 21

@msbellows @Amiek @evacide Oh God. I'd never thought to ChatGPT myself.

That was.... Creepy. I mean, it's terribly flattering. I'd love to be the guy it just described... 😛

Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Feb 21
@mark @Amiek @evacide So are you a sex pest? A masher? A hoarder of overdue library books? Perhaps the dauphine of Mauritius?
Show threadMark T. TomczakFeb 21

@msbellows @Amiek @evacide Apparently, I've written engaging and user-oriented software.

Hah, really?! I'm pretty sure I just faff about in JavaScript. 😉

Show threadFaraiweFeb 19
@Amiek @evacide ::casts turn undead::
Show threadJerameeFeb 19

@Amiek @evacide

I'm just hoping they don't put AI in charge of anything. According to my student loans, I'm worth more dead than alive. If AI gets that, I'm gonna be Skynet's first target.

Show threadantimagic heart-sicknessFeb 20
@Amiek @evacide dead to the slopworld
Show threadCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Feb 22
@Amiek @evacide My condolences. 😔
Show threadharvey allbangersFeb 19
@evacide mazel slop!
Show threadAaron WilliamsonFeb 19
@evacide did it sound like you?
Show threadevacideFeb 19
@copiesofcopies It was bland and inoffensive and it used a cliche, so no.
Show threadAaron WilliamsonFeb 19
@evacide intolerable. I’m vicariously incensed.
Show threadDasFeb 19
@evacide @copiesofcopies I wonder if this is not grounds for libel? [Falsely attributing statement to you, thereby damaging your reputation]?
Show threadAaron WilliamsonFeb 19
@SRDas @evacide potentially, but a claim requires tangible harm, so let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
Show thread🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Feb 21
@evacide @copiesofcopies that sounds like ChatGPT...
Show threadCN=MFA_Everywhere,OU=BLMFeb 19
@evacide I was amazed/outraged/disgusted when I found AI generated articles that just ate up and spat out blog posts I've made.
Show threadgeoff martinFeb 19
@SporkSan @evacide this makes me think that i should put anti-ai easter eggs in my blog posts… thanks!
Show threadgeoff martinFeb 19

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Show threadCN=MFA_Everywhere,OU=BLMMar 17
@ggmartin @evacide Mine were work things, it would have to be a hard sell to get marketing to agree to this, since they see any press as good press.
Show threadslampoudFeb 19
@evacide so, how does one handle that? Esp if one is a public figure, and authenticity is important to them. (I’m stalled halfway through Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger, and suddenly it seems like an oddly practical imperative that I finish it!)
Show threadevacideFeb 19
@slampoud Our press team has sent an email asking for the quote to be taken down. We will see what happens. And yes, you should finish Doppelganger.
Show threadMark T. TomczakFeb 19
@evacide It's like you always say: "Fuck you I did not say that."
Show threadbmaxvFeb 19

@evacide

Was it laughably, obviously fake or kind of close?

Show threadjbFeb 19
@evacide was the “quote” at least near your usual tone?
Show threadploumFeb 19

@evacide : well, you did speak about the topic. It was in the news and will be soon on your wikipedia profile (because in the news), allowing other new outlet to consider it as the truth.

Your own memory is irrelevant to that process.

Show threadAsh_CrowFeb 19
@ploum @evacide AI-generated slop is not an acceptable source on Wikipedia
Show threadploumFeb 19

@Ash_Crow @evacide : as long as it is detected as such…

(I was trying to be funny, don’t pay too much attention to me ;-) )

Show threadScaea - SocialFeb 19
@evacide Plagiarism Software strikes again. Manufacturing the alternative realities
Show threadMad A. Argon Feb 20
@scaea @evacide As if "alternative facts" and disinformation problems weren't enough yet... *sigh* 
Who - if at all - would clean up this growing mess and how...
Show threadrx13  Feb 19

@evacide
I asked chatgpt if this post was real and it said no, so I'm inclined to believe the AI despite this comment

(\s)

Show threadTheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖Feb 19
@evacide So basically legalized plagiarism ?
Show threadWoodrow DouglassFeb 19
@thefwguy @evacide plagiarism would be if they did say that and it wasn't attributed. This is the opposite
Show threadTheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖Feb 19
@bigfishrunning @evacide Got your point, but I didn't read the OP stating she was mentioned.
The "that included a manufactured quote from me " could also mean that she recognized her writing but there was not mention of her name.
Show threadWoodrow DouglassFeb 20
@thefwguy @evacide lol fair enough
Show threadTom DB 🦣Feb 19
@evacide Aaaah the good old: “Honeeeey! It’s hallucinating again! “
Show threadClaus Cramon HoumannFeb 19
@evacide were not-you smart?
Show threadPaul SuttonFeb 19

@evacide

What are your legal rights in this situation, at some point AI is going to produce something that is either slander, libel or deframation and someone is going to pay the price.

Show threadjackFeb 19
@evacide Surely that's grounds to sue?
Show threadElias | coisasdogeekFeb 19
@evacide good to know
Show threadWallOffTrumpFeb 19
@evacide
AI has been given the ability to lie - purposefully.
Show threadWoodrow DouglassFeb 19
@davidarnell @evacide lying implies intent, which "ai" doesn't have. Remember, AI never hallucinates, it only fails
Show threadJo-chin up, elbows up.Feb 20
@bigfishrunning @davidarnell @evacide it fabricates and cheats, even if it knows the rules it will change them to win. When it plays chess it will just make the piece it needs appear out of nowhere if it thinks it is in a losing position. You see this when it plays grandmasters, and there was a game played between Deepseek and ChatGPT where it happened a lot on both sides.
https://youtu.be/JHq4EKMg7fI?si=s0Y-1q9F_nLTlCPg
ChatGPT vs DeepSeek: CRAZY Chess

YouTube
Show threadClive ThompsonFeb 19

@evacide

so many great options these days

Show threadJoanna Bryson, blatheringFeb 19
@evacide @phanecak I have a section of my CV for these, since some people want you to document all media mentions. So far only two, one from a Turkish paper, one Iranian.
Show threadD's lack of faith in humanityFeb 19

@evacide

I think Harold best expresses all of our opinions on this.

Oh, also according to ChatGPT I live in Hamburg Germany.

Show threadPaul WoutersFeb 19
@evacide but did it at least make you sound passionate and angry ? 🤣
Show threadRRBFeb 19

@evacide Did it include an AI generated picture?

Kara Swisher noted that the AI photos that they have of her are ....

Show threadOrrock LXXXVI XLVIIFeb 19
@evacide what was the topic?
Show thread𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙Feb 19

@evacide

According to Grok, I'm Brian and so's my wife.

Show threadEnara ❔Feb 19
@evacide every time I see these kinds of posts, my impulse is to scream "SUE! SUE! SUUUUEEEEE!"
Show threadWesDymFeb 19

@evacide Having been quoted myself in the press before AI, I don't see that as too huge a change.

People who say "I saw it in the news" are people who've never been the subject of or quoted by the news. People who understand which media are better or worse are those who have.

Show threadmarco_m_aus_fFeb 19
@evacide Yikes! I hope you are in a position to make them regret it.
Show threadOlympiaJoeFeb 19
@evacide were you able to flag it to an actual human or is it still out there?