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The Daily Wrong: AI-Generated Lies Every Day

140 points by memorable 4y ago

reallymental 4y ago
This must be one of the best/most entertaining posts I've seen on HN. Especially the bit about Gillette making razors for babies. Literally something that could become true in a parallel universe. Incredible work!
- Schroedingersat 4y ago
  Well the five blades with one on the handle thing was originally an onion article. Who knows.
  - exodust 4y ago
    I remember sitting at work in 2004 laughing at the original Onion gag: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla... Laughed again a few years later when 5 blades became real. These days I use a good quality twin blade, no need for 5 blades.
- metadat 4y ago
  The babies one is at the bottom of this page: https://archive.ph/Y1oNG https://archive.ph/Y1oNG Full "article": https://web.archive.org/web/20220705095136/https://dailywrong.com/gillette-releases-a-new-razor-for-babies/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220705095136/https://dailywron...
tinyprojects 4y ago
This is fantastic! Bluebird Sues Cat is a masterpiece.
tgv 4y ago
Great satire, but sadly too late. The people who worked on deep-fakes, DALL-E and the likes of it won't stop and delete their products. Instead, evidence will be harder and harder to trust, until we've got a zero-trust society, in which the most manipulative party wins. In today's world, that would be Putin. Isn't it wonderful when AI developers have no sense of ethics?
- viknesh 4y ago
  That's not how technology works. Unless you want the world to hide & censor the information on how to make similar models, the data exists for anybody with sufficiently powerful computer resources to make similar models. The only thing that hiding away this tech would do is restrict access to well-funded attackers, which seems worse than the current situation.
- 317070 4y ago
  As I am accused of having no sense of ethics. Evidence has always been hard to trust, we should have had a zero-trust society for a lot longer. But because of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and our trust in the unreasonable effectiveness of journalism, we find the USA fighting wars disheveling millions over weapons of mass destruction that never existed. Nothing has really changed, it only became easier to automate what was already there before.
  - williamtrask 4y ago
    A “zero-trust society” seems like a dangerous phrase to advocate. Society exists because of trust in institutions.
    - qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
      Actually its a spectrum, there are high trust and low trust societies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4
      - williamtrask 4y ago
        I agree with you, but no society functions at the “0” end of that spectrum. That’s anarchy. Even Mad Max / Book of Eli level dystopia still had nonzero trust in local warlords as institutions.
      - ciphol 4y ago
        The example given of a high trust society is Finland. The example given of a low trust society is Afghanistan. [1] Which would you rather live in? https://theconversation.com/trusting-societies-are-overall-happier-a-happiness-expert-explains-why-177803 https://theconversation.com/trusting-societies-are-overall-h...
pyuser583 4y ago
samuel 4y ago
Only the images are generated by AI. The prompts seem to be written by humans. Impressive still. I was flabbergasted for a moment thinking everything was AI generated. Even a bit scared, honestly.
- deleted 4y ago
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- dtn 4y ago
  The articles are GPT-3 generated, albeit heavily cherry-picked. https://dailywrong.com/sample-page/ https://dailywrong.com/sample-page/
rob74 4y ago
So how does this work? Does someone ask DALL-E to generate images of pregnant dinosaurs with text (if asked for text, DALL-E is prone to generate nonsense words which however strangely fit the general tone of the image), and then writes a clever article about it?
- asicsp 4y ago
  See the discussion by the site's author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168903
tryauuum 4y ago
"image cannot be downloaded securely", I think I only can override it in Android's Chrome settings
- deleted 4y ago
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yessirwhatever 4y ago
Something is wrong with your ssl cert authority
- HighlandSpring 4y ago
  Seems on brand
metadat 4y ago
Images are currently broken for me. Archive link is working: https://archive.ph/xNHUf https://archive.ph/xNHUf
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
cube00 4y ago
tl;dr If you're on Firefox you can temporarily disable mixed http/https protection using the padlock icon near the URL. Of course it goes without saying that you should never provide anything sensitive with this protection disabled as MITM attacks are possible. [1] The setup of this page is strange. http forwards to https but all the assets (JS, images, CSS) are full domain http only inside a served https page. There also some references that use the protocol free // prefix so the authors knew this was possible if they wanted both http and https but only used it in some parts of the page. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_content https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_...
cout 4y ago
If the images were smaller, I think this might render decently on mobile -- on my iphone I either have to zoom out to see the image or zoom in to read the text.
lee101 4y ago
This is hilarious, kind of like the onion but without pesky humans, would be interested in how these are generated, perhaps the title is used to generate the image with dalle. Note when generating text try https://text-generator.io https://text-generator.io which will save you some when generating text or code Vs open ai

140 points by memorable 4y ago

This must be one of the best/most entertaining posts I've seen on HN. Especially the bit about Gillette making razors for babies. Literally something that could become true in a parallel universe. Incredible work!

Schroedingersat 4y ago
Well the five blades with one on the handle thing was originally an onion article. Who knows.
- exodust 4y ago
  I remember sitting at work in 2004 laughing at the original Onion gag: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036 https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla... Laughed again a few years later when 5 blades became real. These days I use a good quality twin blade, no need for 5 blades.
metadat 4y ago
The babies one is at the bottom of this page: https://archive.ph/Y1oNG https://archive.ph/Y1oNG Full "article": https://web.archive.org/web/20220705095136/https://dailywrong.com/gillette-releases-a-new-razor-for-babies/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220705095136/https://dailywron...

tinyprojects 4y ago

This is fantastic! Bluebird Sues Cat is a masterpiece.

tgv 4y ago

Great satire, but sadly too late. The people who worked on deep-fakes, DALL-E and the likes of it won't stop and delete their products. Instead, evidence will be harder and harder to trust, until we've got a zero-trust society, in which the most manipulative party wins. In today's world, that would be Putin. Isn't it wonderful when AI developers have no sense of ethics?

viknesh 4y ago
That's not how technology works. Unless you want the world to hide & censor the information on how to make similar models, the data exists for anybody with sufficiently powerful computer resources to make similar models. The only thing that hiding away this tech would do is restrict access to well-funded attackers, which seems worse than the current situation.
317070 4y ago
As I am accused of having no sense of ethics. Evidence has always been hard to trust, we should have had a zero-trust society for a lot longer. But because of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect and our trust in the unreasonable effectiveness of journalism, we find the USA fighting wars disheveling millions over weapons of mass destruction that never existed. Nothing has really changed, it only became easier to automate what was already there before.
- williamtrask 4y ago
  A “zero-trust society” seems like a dangerous phrase to advocate. Society exists because of trust in institutions.
  - qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
    Actually its a spectrum, there are high trust and low trust societies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4
    - williamtrask 4y ago
      I agree with you, but no society functions at the “0” end of that spectrum. That’s anarchy. Even Mad Max / Book of Eli level dystopia still had nonzero trust in local warlords as institutions.
    - ciphol 4y ago
      The example given of a high trust society is Finland. The example given of a low trust society is Afghanistan. [1] Which would you rather live in? https://theconversation.com/trusting-societies-are-overall-happier-a-happiness-expert-explains-why-177803 https://theconversation.com/trusting-societies-are-overall-h...

pyuser583 4y ago

samuel 4y ago

Only the images are generated by AI. The prompts seem to be written by humans. Impressive still. I was flabbergasted for a moment thinking everything was AI generated. Even a bit scared, honestly.

deleted 4y ago
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dtn 4y ago
The articles are GPT-3 generated, albeit heavily cherry-picked. https://dailywrong.com/sample-page/ https://dailywrong.com/sample-page/

rob74 4y ago

So how does this work? Does someone ask DALL-E to generate images of pregnant dinosaurs with text (if asked for text, DALL-E is prone to generate nonsense words which however strangely fit the general tone of the image), and then writes a clever article about it?

asicsp 4y ago
See the discussion by the site's author here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168903

tryauuum 4y ago

"image cannot be downloaded securely", I think I only can override it in Android's Chrome settings

deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

yessirwhatever 4y ago

Something is wrong with your ssl cert authority

HighlandSpring 4y ago
Seems on brand

metadat 4y ago

Images are currently broken for me. Archive link is working: https://archive.ph/xNHUf https://archive.ph/xNHUf

deleted 4y ago
[deleted]

cube00 4y ago

tl;dr If you're on Firefox you can temporarily disable mixed http/https protection using the padlock icon near the URL. Of course it goes without saying that you should never provide anything sensitive with this protection disabled as MITM attacks are possible. [1] The setup of this page is strange. http forwards to https but all the assets (JS, images, CSS) are full domain http only inside a served https page. There also some references that use the protocol free // prefix so the authors knew this was possible if they wanted both http and https but only used it in some parts of the page. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_content https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_...

cout 4y ago

If the images were smaller, I think this might render decently on mobile -- on my iphone I either have to zoom out to see the image or zoom in to read the text.

lee101 4y ago

This is hilarious, kind of like the onion but without pesky humans, would be interested in how these are generated, perhaps the title is used to generate the image with dalle. Note when generating text try https://text-generator.io https://text-generator.io which will save you some when generating text or code Vs open ai