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I still remember the Paula Abdul office background poster and the whole fiasco of BHA Carl Sagan code names. Easter eggs and codenames were supposed to be fun,

by sinoue 4y ago

I still remember the Paula Abdul office background poster and the whole fiasco of BHA Carl Sagan code names. Easter eggs and codenames were supposed to be fun, not lawsuit material.

ralfd 4y ago
> I still remember the Paula Abdul office background poster I don't understand this reference and Google leaves me totally blank here. I could ask you to clarify, but there is the chance you don't see it or dont reply so … ChatGPT to the rescue? ----------- Prompt: What was the Paula Abdul office background poster controversy? ChatCPT: The Paula Abdul office background poster controversy refers to a incident that occurred during a live episode of "American Idol" in 2009, when fans noticed a poster hanging on the wall behind Paula Abdul's desk during her pre-taped video segments. The poster, which appeared to be of a semi-nude woman, caused a stir among viewers and led to accusations that Abdul was promoting sexual objectification. Abdul and the show's producers initially denied that the poster existed, but later issued a statement acknowledging its presence and stating that it was not intentionally visible during the broadcast. They also apologized to viewers who may have been offended by the poster. ----------- This does sound plausible … But wait! Is this truly true or just hallucinated? Googling "Paula Abdul American Idol" just finds countless gossip posts about an alleged affaire with ex-contestant Corey Clark, but nothing about a poster.
- foooorsyth 4y ago
  Par for the course for Google these days. Search just doesn’t work anymore.
- idkyall 4y ago
  I wonder if American Idol or Paula Abdul has paid to reduce some of those results in relevance
  - ralfd 4y ago
    It is maybe noteworthy that I am in Europe. The google results have a disclaimer that some results could be missing and link to https://policies.google.com/faq https://policies.google.com/faq > How are you implementing the recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decision on the right to be forgotten? I don't think that is really the issue though, I think there is just too much noise around the signal. But I am struck that GPT could answer my question (I guess?) and Google not. I also wonder when demands are done for a "right to be forgotten" in the training data for AI.
- hbn 4y ago
  > Googling "Paula Abdul American Idol" just finds countless gossip posts about an alleged affaire with ex-contestant Corey Clark, but nothing about a poster. Why would you expect that to return results about a specific controversy from 2009? She was a judge on American Idol for years, it's the only reason I know who she is.

by sinoue 4y ago

I still remember the Paula Abdul office background poster and the whole fiasco of BHA Carl Sagan code names. Easter eggs and codenames were supposed to be fun, not lawsuit material.

ralfd 4y ago

> I still remember the Paula Abdul office background poster I don't understand this reference and Google leaves me totally blank here. I could ask you to clarify, but there is the chance you don't see it or dont reply so … ChatGPT to the rescue? ----------- Prompt: What was the Paula Abdul office background poster controversy? ChatCPT: The Paula Abdul office background poster controversy refers to a incident that occurred during a live episode of "American Idol" in 2009, when fans noticed a poster hanging on the wall behind Paula Abdul's desk during her pre-taped video segments. The poster, which appeared to be of a semi-nude woman, caused a stir among viewers and led to accusations that Abdul was promoting sexual objectification. Abdul and the show's producers initially denied that the poster existed, but later issued a statement acknowledging its presence and stating that it was not intentionally visible during the broadcast. They also apologized to viewers who may have been offended by the poster. ----------- This does sound plausible … But wait! Is this truly true or just hallucinated? Googling "Paula Abdul American Idol" just finds countless gossip posts about an alleged affaire with ex-contestant Corey Clark, but nothing about a poster.

foooorsyth 4y ago
Par for the course for Google these days. Search just doesn’t work anymore.
idkyall 4y ago
I wonder if American Idol or Paula Abdul has paid to reduce some of those results in relevance
- ralfd 4y ago
  It is maybe noteworthy that I am in Europe. The google results have a disclaimer that some results could be missing and link to https://policies.google.com/faq https://policies.google.com/faq > How are you implementing the recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decision on the right to be forgotten? I don't think that is really the issue though, I think there is just too much noise around the signal. But I am struck that GPT could answer my question (I guess?) and Google not. I also wonder when demands are done for a "right to be forgotten" in the training data for AI.
hbn 4y ago
> Googling "Paula Abdul American Idol" just finds countless gossip posts about an alleged affaire with ex-contestant Corey Clark, but nothing about a poster. Why would you expect that to return results about a specific controversy from 2009? She was a judge on American Idol for years, it's the only reason I know who she is.