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Twitter AI Trending Tab Believes NBA Klay Thompson Is Throwing Bricks at Houses

bespokedevelopr 2y ago
After a bad shooting night in an elimination game between NBA teams Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson did not score a single point. This led to an outpouring of comments about all the bricks he put up. AI interpreted it a little different. Mirror: Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear. image: https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3 https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3
- hbarka 2y ago
  It’s far more than an innocent hallucination. It manufactured news propaganda. Statements like “has been accused”, “authorities are investigating”, “houses being damaged” would be sourced if it were by journalistic standards. X ai weights and biases have gone Elon-mode.
  - add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
    It actually gets even worse: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072 https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072
    - SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
      I'm not sure what you mean - this link is about a different AI built by a different company. I'd also encourage you to not to give much weight to a social media screenshot attributed only to "somebody".
      - add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
        The point is that the space of unhinged LLMs gets worse than this one, somehow. And this one was reproduced by others, per the comments. Most of everything we know is based on things we've heard second or third hand. We tend not to realize this consciously, or that we only choose to be skeptical at certain times based on our values.
paxys 2y ago
For people who are confused, NBA fans use "shooting bricks" or "throwing bricks" as an euphemism for a terrible scoring performance. It seems like Grok saw these live tweets and couldn't understand the context, resulting in this truly bizarre trending story accusing him of vandalizing Sacramento. We live in wild times.
- mikece 2y ago
  I'm guessing that "at the window" used in describing Klay throwing up bricks ("the window" being a euphemism for the backboard)? It does highlight the challenge with teaching euphemism to computers; it will be impressive if computers can keep pace with the evolution of euphemisms faster than parents of teenagers -- I a resource more reliable than Urban Dictionary to look up what phrases mean these days.
- JohnFen 2y ago
  Thank you, that was badly needed context for those of us who've never heard that euphemism before.
ben_jones 2y ago
Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.
- paxys 2y ago
  Yeah, it's easy to write this off as "haha AI being AI", but this is content posted as top trending news on the front page of one of the most visited websites in the world, one which is probably the primary news source of hundreds of millions of people. Today it is a mostly harmless sports article, tomorrow it will be about elections, geopolitics, social issues and everything else. If you were complaining about unreliable social media, watch it go on steroids in the coming years.
- kccoder 2y ago
  Elon, a free speech absolutist, who also believes that AI will be hyper intelligent in the very near future, probably doesn't want to infringe on the potentially sentient AI's free speech. Or he simply doesn't care about the truth and has understaffed Twitter to the point that there is no one available to handle these issues.
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After a bad shooting night in an elimination game between NBA teams Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson did not score a single point. This led to an outpouring of comments about all the bricks he put up. AI interpreted it a little different. Mirror: Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear. image: https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3 https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3

hbarka 2y ago
It’s far more than an innocent hallucination. It manufactured news propaganda. Statements like “has been accused”, “authorities are investigating”, “houses being damaged” would be sourced if it were by journalistic standards. X ai weights and biases have gone Elon-mode.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
  It actually gets even worse: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072 https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072
  - SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
    I'm not sure what you mean - this link is about a different AI built by a different company. I'd also encourage you to not to give much weight to a social media screenshot attributed only to "somebody".
    - add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
      The point is that the space of unhinged LLMs gets worse than this one, somehow. And this one was reproduced by others, per the comments. Most of everything we know is based on things we've heard second or third hand. We tend not to realize this consciously, or that we only choose to be skeptical at certain times based on our values.

paxys 2y ago

For people who are confused, NBA fans use "shooting bricks" or "throwing bricks" as an euphemism for a terrible scoring performance. It seems like Grok saw these live tweets and couldn't understand the context, resulting in this truly bizarre trending story accusing him of vandalizing Sacramento. We live in wild times.

mikece 2y ago
I'm guessing that "at the window" used in describing Klay throwing up bricks ("the window" being a euphemism for the backboard)? It does highlight the challenge with teaching euphemism to computers; it will be impressive if computers can keep pace with the evolution of euphemisms faster than parents of teenagers -- I a resource more reliable than Urban Dictionary to look up what phrases mean these days.
JohnFen 2y ago
Thank you, that was badly needed context for those of us who've never heard that euphemism before.

ben_jones 2y ago

Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.

paxys 2y ago
Yeah, it's easy to write this off as "haha AI being AI", but this is content posted as top trending news on the front page of one of the most visited websites in the world, one which is probably the primary news source of hundreds of millions of people. Today it is a mostly harmless sports article, tomorrow it will be about elections, geopolitics, social issues and everything else. If you were complaining about unreliable social media, watch it go on steroids in the coming years.
kccoder 2y ago
Elon, a free speech absolutist, who also believes that AI will be hyper intelligent in the very near future, probably doesn't want to infringe on the potentially sentient AI's free speech. Or he simply doesn't care about the truth and has understaffed Twitter to the point that there is no one available to handle these issues.

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