Related: <i>Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362</a><p>also: <i>Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199</a>
AI hallucinations are getting ambitious.<p>A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death.<p>“Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.”<p>After some digging, I discovered the source: an AI-generated review of The Cuckoo’s Egg circulating on Facebook. Alongside the usual synthetic praise and fabricated details, it confidently announced that I had died in May 2024.<p>Apparently AI has now advanced to the point where it can kill people off before they notice.<p>Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally.<p>source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=989939243570691&id=100076638743004<p>Cheers, -Cliff