just keeps making itself more and more irrelevant

Andy Weir hasn't written "The Last Algorithm" yet . This is a text prediction program. It's telling you about the future. Of course it's wrong, right now . Have some patience, people.

I blame the parents.

I have absolutely no use for legacy media. At no point in time was any useful information given about the damage the Trump tariffs were going to do until after he was made president. I watched over and over again as anyone who tried to get that information out was forced to resign.

If they will sell you out for an election they will sell you out for anything else. That means any information you get from them is effectively worthless.

You can still get some decent info from the associate press because they are only reporting facts. Although even they have had a few bad moments lately.

Ever since we deregulated under Reagan and Clinton allowing a handful of billionaires to buy literally every TV station and newspaper on the planet the quality of our information has gone down and down and down.

The scary thing is this isn't even Rock bottom. If you know what it's like to live in Russia then it's absolutely batshit insane how much worse it can get. And that does seem to be the direction we are going in.

I wonder how long until we have a Black swan event.

...just saying.

I have yet to use an LLM (I hesitate to use the term 'AI' to describe these things) where the training data is less than a year old. Clearly whoever did this has no clue that you simply can't get a LLM to give you a current reading list. Or current events. They only know probabilistic word associations. Things with a strong signal, like how to how to interpret a shell script in general they can do - to a point. They still don't usually catch a missing semicolon or unpaired parentheses. Things with a w

All these hallucinations are an attempt by the AIs to lull us into a false sense of security about their real abilities...

I think I'm probably wrong ;)

This is what I think of whenever I see people saying using this kind of software helps them get work done.

Buscaglia turned in an ostensible article, but he definitely didn't do his job. The article was completely unfit for purpose.

I understand there are billions of dollars riding on people believing that these programs are useful, but I remain unconvinced.

... but not quality. You can't take either human-created or AI-created as gospel, certainly not opinions of what's a good read, but AI certainly does produce more and faster (just not better or more accurate) of whatever text you're producing.

Simply have AI write the missing books

What if Andy Weir is now inspired to write and publish a book that is titled, "The Last Algorithm"?

Does this mean it's a fake book, it was a fake real book, a real fake book now, or just a real book now?

What if the book is published but it doesn't have any words on the pages?

Is it a fake fake book, it was a fake fake real book, a fake real fake book now, fake real book now, a real fake fake book, or a fake fake fake book?

What if someone sells something that looks like the published book (without word) but i

... and just pretend our AI agent read them. We can continue to congratulate each other for our good taste and refined interests.

'Listicles' (which quite appropriately sounds like 'testicles', or 'bollocks') are those so-called articles simply comprising a list. Even before AI these were incredibly low-effort space fillers and most AI answers seem to be given in the form of a list. The fact that this garbage was generated by a newspaper is shocking enough but fits the general trend of articles seemingly being created for the sake of it - blog posts, endless tweets, Medium posts, LinkedIn etc... authors trying to get eyeballs for what