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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Phrase Of The Week:
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Amusing summary
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/3836728/you-thought-genai-hallucinations-were-bad-things-just-got-so-much-worse.html>
of research into how bad AIs can get in some of the rubbish results
they produce. We knew they could lose their hold on reality and start
making things up, but did you know they could also cheat, and tell lies
about that cheating when confronted with it?

For example, when given charge of doing share trades, and told not to
(illegally) take advantage of insider information, they might do so
anyway, and then simply deny it when challenged.

Oh, and the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” is complete
nonsense; it originated when an AI was processing multicolumn text,
and saw words next to each other which were in separate columns, not
part of the same sentence at all, and ran them together anyway. From
there, the phrase somehow spread to other publications ...