Saskboy K.
On Friday morning my friend mentioned they read about me in the newspaper. It was an interview I gave last year. I looked up the story, and it's almost completely wrong. I don't know if the student journalist made mistakes, or if they ran things through GenAI and it hallucinated a bunch of it!
Mar 3 at 4:29pmWeb
Show threadSaskboy K.Mar 3
Later that morning the student journalist apologized and was going to remove the incorrect sections of the article, or so I thought.
Hours later, they said their editor hadn't responded yet.
Hours later, they tried fixing the article, but got various things wrong in subtle or stupid ways.
Show threadSaskboy K.Mar 3
“A life changing moment”
It was not life changing going over a pothole. It caused me to make a Service Request to the City of Regina the next morning. I do that often when some infrastructure is in need of repair in Regina. #YQRcc
Show threadSaskboy K.Mar 3

They agreed to take the article down online instead this time. It's now a 404.
We'll see what they do for the print version, if anything this week.

https://carillonregina.com/u-of-r-it-support-specialist-also-an-advocate-for-safer-streets-and-better-infrastructure/

Show threadSaskboy K.Mar 3
It remains surreal that a student journalist thought they could use GenAI to write/enhance their story from their interview notes with me, and that it wouldn't produce AI Slop that had little basis in truth.
Show threadAction Jay 🐾 Mar 3
@saskboy so wild to see this happening to people I follow. The spread of this slop is getting everywhere!
Show threadsomecanuckchickMar 3

@saskboy We're doomed as a species.

My current pet peeve is people that use whatever AI BS summarizes a magazine article, or a book, or whatever, but do not even read the summary before sharing it... we're talking about people 45+ doing this kinda shite. How did Coles Notes do a better job than AI BS ever will?!?!? Meh.

Show threadsomecanuckchickMar 3
@saskboy Maybe all three...