The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

jimbobimbo•20 minutes ago

To be fair, the guy on the picture doesn't even look like Jim Carrey, so...

ludamad•about 2 hours ago

After being very concerned that the Google agent seriously believes hitting one's jaw with a hammer was a real phenomenon, citing that the real cases must be private, a medical journal mentioned it and they would never pick up tiktok rumours (they essentially did) etc I thought it would have surely been fooled here. I suppose if not, important facts like this could be agent-checked and need a 2/2 consensus in that case

danlugo92•about 2 hours ago

Or we could just stop celebrity worship

ludamad•41 minutes ago

Of all things, wanting to know if someone is still breathing is celebrity worship?

toast0•17 minutes ago

Do you want to know if they're alive because of your personal relationship with them or because of their celebrity?

Maybe this isn't quite worship, but it's certainly related.

browningstreet•about 1 hour ago

Or we could stop astroturfing cultural waves that’ll never subside

whattheheckheck•36 minutes ago

Who is we?

slowmovintarget•about 2 hours ago

Gemini will confidently tell you "it can't possibly be a Chrome bug" even when, on certain rare occasions, it actually is. We even used Gemini to look at the code and find the bug, but it wouldn't admit this was a Chrome bug when approaching from the conversational angle.

Dilettante_•about 1 hour ago

Wow, it's so human already!

comrade1234•about 2 hours ago

When it mentions jimmy carter's death I wasn't sure if the article was irony as I had completely missed that he had died (December 29, 2024 - not sure how I missed it, must have been ignoring the news that week)

delichon•about 2 hours ago

I think AI has increased the volume of such mistakes, but not necessarily the ratio. Compare this to all too human false reports this week of Justice Alito's retirement.

Nina Totenberg was the source and has been remarkably honest about it. She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements," and that was sufficient for her to rush a story about Alito retiring. Given her stature it was instant national news until a denial was issued.

It can be a win if the increased AI slop volume leads us to inspect all news more closely, regardless of source.

gdulli•40 minutes ago

What will actually happen is that instead of a person being accountable and taking a reputational hit, errors will be shrugged off as bugs and accountability will go off into the aether. Like all the other reasons to distrust the tech giants that have not meaningfully damaged or corrected them.

toast0•26 minutes ago

> She saw some activity around the court, asked about it, heard "retirement announcements,"

You missed the nuance. She had left the press room and noticed many others hadn't; asking about why not, she heard "retirement announcement", but what was said was "retirement announcements"

A singular announcement, that people were waiting around to listen to, would have only been Alito. Multiple announcements could include Alito or not, but would include staff and what not. A singular staff retirement would not have kept people for long.

Razengan•about 1 hour ago

The title made my heart skip a beat

The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

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