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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Worldcon AI scandal
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 06:27:25 -0400
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On 5/30/25 8:56 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <vve4fc$2k3$1@reader1.panix.com>,
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>> According to
>> https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
>> the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.
> 
> Not exactly.  A later statement explains a bit more detail about how it was
> used.  Some information and some more detail can be seen at:
> 
> https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
> 
> I'm still not happy with ChatGPT being used but the issue was not as
> serious as originally described.
> --scott
> 

And certainly not as serious as the White House health report which was 
released the other day with fictitious references, false claims about 
what was in actual papers, and a variety of other problems indicative of 
AI hallucinations.

The White House described them as "formatting errors".

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
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