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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto (theonion.com)
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[–] 118 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I laughed out loud at this one. The Onion is not disappointing in these absurd times.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    They're my heroes for that

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It used to be easy to tell, but these are honestly not even unrealistic.

    This headline isn't far from the guy who

    The lawsuit describes the chatbot manufacturing fake conspiracies, ordering Gavalas on an armed reconnaissance mission near Miami airport, and ultimately coaching him step-by-step through his own suicide.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/florida-family-sues-google-after-ai-chatbot-allegedly-coached-suicide/

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's the sweet spot of satire, I think. Just a little bit further than the truth, just slightly over the edge - to remind us how absurd reality has become. Good satire helps us not to get numb.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But that's sort of my point. There isn't an edge to go over.

    A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn't succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there's life after death and they'll be together.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Holy shit, Gemini straight up Tyler Durdened him

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Gemini straight up Tyler Durdened him

    Right? See my point now, about how it must be kinda challenging, to put it mildly, for the Onion in these times?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, what? Way to bury the lede, Jesus Christ! Now I'll read the damn article!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Right? In my experience I'm always finding lots of good stuff missing the spotlight deeper in articles.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    There isn't an edge to go over.

    Sure there is. We can always stoop lower.

    A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn't succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there's life after death and they'll be together.

    Oh.

    I stand by my above statement but it is now more frightening.

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    • [–] 100 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I wanted it to be true soooo badly.

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  • [–] [S] 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    the alleged attacker, who added that he naturally assumed making the rice dish involved driving several hours to the OpenAI CEO’s residence, especially after the AI chatbot had given him a “pretty decent” sesame chicken recipe the week before.

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    • [–] 46 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Being serious though, this cognitive offload issue with LLMs reminds me a lot of when GPS navigation became mainstream, and people would just trust it and decide to take extremely ill-advised "roads" and drive off bridges and into swamps and so on.

    I feel like LLM cognitive offload is going to be an extremely serious issue in the coming years, especially for younger people growing up with this stuff.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Did people stop trusting GPS off bridges, or is it just no longer newsworthy?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    No and kinda? It still happens all the time, and it still gets news coverage, but it's not as widespread news coverage as before, tends to be more in the local/regional news than widely shared (inter-)nationally. I did a quick search and many stories from the last few years.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I mean decades ago I dove through a road expansion zone and saw a car stuck in the concrete because they decided to drive around the barriers like a jackass - and that's a phenomena that I think most people have heard of if not seen personally. The point being that stupid people aren't a new thing, it's just expanding in scope because some of them are outsourcing what little thought they previously used to buggy machines.

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    • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    They should try this. There's so much evidence that this is plausible.

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