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Since OpenAI is the flavour of the week as you can see from our reports about the company here and here, it would be apt we start the weekend fun with them as well. A London artist pasted fake ads from the company inside subway cars. The artist Darren Cullen said this “subvertising” was an effort to raise alarm bells about the ill-effects of AI chatbots.
Now, how’s that a laughing matter? Well it isn’t. Just that the artist has done such a darned good job of the ad that many folks taking the London Tube actually thought it was real. A few of them were visibly upset at the tone of the ad, which they felt was real. However, several others noted that given the fake information peddled by OpenAI to bolster its reputation, the only way to get them to notice real issues were through such fake ads.
In fact, Cullen’s X handle calls out to those who come across his social media handle to beware of billionaires. “Don’t believe everything billionaires tell you,” he warns with his handle further noting that “spelling mistakes cost lives.” Now, this is something that even an AI chatbot cannot hallucinate about.
Speaking of hallucinations, President Trump was probably having one of his own recently. Having recently admitted to benefiting big time from investing in select stocks and then giving them a step up through his policies, this smart investor bought up to $5 million shares in a Japanese sushi restaurant chain called Kura Sushi. Only that he was looking to buy stock of a well-known computer hardware company.
The company he eyed was Fujikura, a fibre-optics and computer hardware supplier that’s seen robust growth on the back of the AI boom. However, it looks like Trump’s stomach growled for a midnight snack of sushi and ended up with the wrong “Kura” instead. And Japanese netizens are having a hearty laugh at this stock trade. That is, till they heard of the Modi-Meloni-Melody story from India! It seems several tech billionaires are now wondering “Yeh Melody Itni Chocolatey Kyon Hai?”
By the way, billionaires in the business of AI have one thing in common. Their natural stupidity levels rise inexorably when faced with jokes made at their expense. And Marc Andreessen of VC firm a16z is no exception when it comes to having a meltdown over a rage-bait video. The parody video of Apple’s old “Mac vs PC” video, was created by a16z rival General Catalyst.
In the original video, Apple is the cool one and Microsoft is the egghead. In the GC version, the latter is introduced as VC and one of the characters remotely resembles Andreessen who supports a startup called “Woof AI” because he believes people like the AI version of the dog more than the real one.
The video (see it here) isn’t funny as what happened thereafter. Andreessen went berserk as he first threatened and then tried to pay GC back in their own coin, posting some AI-generated spoof videos. Reminded us of the fanboy from India who praises Elon Musk’s every move via a social handle? Maybe, it’s time AI itself delivered some reality checks.
Speaking of reality checks, the modern AI age is making it a tough ask, as an author recently found out, much to his chagrin. The book titled “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality” was found to contain several fake quotes made up by… you guessed it right… AI.
Author Steven Rosenbaum was red-faced while acknowledging AI use while owning moral responsibility. Maybe even the tools meant to un-AI all AI content isn’t working all that well. The NYT, which discovered this deception said it all via its headline: “Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.”
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