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The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With
- cedws 13d agoThis is kind of the plot of Detroit: Become Human.
- Mistletoe 13d agoI expected some deeper delving into the story but it just kind of rambles for a bit and ends, like an LLM wrote it.
- 1attice 13d agoVice Media is in economic collapse so I wouldn't be surprised.
- saaaaaam 13d agoThe original 404 media story this badly written vice article is click baiting with is better. https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/ https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-l...
- mingus88 13d agoIronic as I think the founders of 404 came from vice
- andyjohnson0 13d ago> But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you a story, there’s a good chance he’ll appear, unbidden. Is this something that people do?
- mingus88 13d agoWe live in a world where people are having relationships with, taking drug advice from, and even getting married to AI chat bots Asking one to tell you a story is table stakes. One of my first experiments with ChatGPT was prompting it to tell me a story that was Hogwarts but the houses were mob families from the Sopranos and the spells were slang like gabagool. It was pretty mind blowing at the time how detailed it was with such a basic prompt. Pretty obvious it was trained in copyrighted material and just vaguely recycling it back.
- 1attice 13d ago> Pretty obvious it was trained in copyrighted material and just vaguely recycling it back. You can just say "screenwriter" and yes this is a valid job. Not anyone's fault the kids want to hear the same story every night
- orbital-decay 13d agoIt's just another reincarnation of Count Grey, also known as Elara Voss, also known as mode collapse.