Throughout his NBA profession, he performed in 67 video games over two seasons
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless"
Submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless
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bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
roguetrick@kbin.social 1 year ago
Dude really went wild during the steam summer sale.
mPony@kbin.social 1 year ago
Don't we all.
meco03211@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gotta teach it to add qualifying language. The above is falsifiable (even if it happens to be true).
Throughout his NBA profession, he performed in approximately 67 video games over two seasons
Throughout his NBA profession, he performed in at least 67 video games over two seasons
The second one is only technically falsifiable. It wouldn’t be practical though as you’d have to prove you investigated every video game over a 2 year period (and not necessarily contiguous). Not an easy task.
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
Agreed. Otherwise the content was perfect.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
I mean… if they’re dead, they probably really suck at basketball so it’s not exactly untrue.
lauha@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Dead people really are quite useless in basketball.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Hello, I’m the agent for dead player ‘Magic Bob’, I’d like to enrol him in your team of the Eagles… Hello?”
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
“Sir this is the other NBA. You wanna contact the Necromatic Basketball Association.”
pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean, MSN is just a portal and I doubt there's much behind it besides what domains are popular. MSN "published" this the same way Google News published articles. It sounds better to say Microsoft did it, but it's from some news site called Race Track and it was simply scraped by MSN.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, but that’s a key part of the problem. The media had already automated a lot of the news curation into Google News, MSN and other portals, getting people used to not paying much attention to the particular source of news. The news is now moving to generating the actual content in an automated way, rather than just the aggregation step.
pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 year ago
But it still isn't MSN who did it. The key part of the problem is entirely glossed over in the article.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Link to the article (archived)
#Brandon Hunter useless at 42# Story by Editor • 9/12/2023, 11:21:42 PM21h
Former NBA participant Brandon Hunter, who beforehand performed for the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic, has handed away on the age of 42, as introduced by Ohio males’s basketball coach Jeff Boals on Tuesday.
Hunter, initially a extremely regarded highschool basketball participant in Cincinnati, achieved vital success as a ahead for the Bobcats.
He earned three first-team All-MAC convention alternatives and led the NCAA in rebounding throughout his senior season. Hunter’s expertise led to his choice because the 56th general decide within the 2003 NBA Draft.
Throughout his NBA profession, he performed in 67 video games over two seasons and achieved a career-high of 17 factors in a recreation in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks in 2004.
MooseLad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Okay but when’s the last time you had 17 factors in a recreation in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks, hmm?
frickineh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never, but I am useless at 39, so what does that get me?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s some top notch obituary writing, AI.
roguetrick@kbin.social 1 year ago
I agree, it's extremely regarded.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hey!
“Throughout his NBA profession, he performed in 67 video games over two seasons and achieved a career-high of 17 factors in a recreation in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks in 2004.”
He wasn’t useless, you wish version Skynet!!
Brawndo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Intelligence is not the same as Wisdom. People often conflate the two and "AI" as it exists today is equivalent to a 3 year olds level of wisdom and a 40 year olds level of intelligence. It has access to vast amounts of facts and data but is completely unable to actually "understand" context and meaning.
war@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yes, these mimicry algorithms have the intelligence of a 40-year-old human, that's definitely not an absurdly idiotic claim.
pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's clear you're both using different meanings of "intelligence." Granted I don't think there is consensus on its meaning, but from context they clearly regard "intelligence" as just memorized facts and wisdom as the application of it, which they aren't honestly far off. The amount of data is there, it's the understanding of the data that isn't there.
AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is just word replacement of an existing article, done to avoid DMCA claims, whether it was done by AI or an algorithm is irrelevent.
Ethanol@pawb.social 1 year ago
Oh yeah, you’re right. Seems like the AI replaced dead with useless as in “dead batteries”. That is really awful.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 42 this week, a tragedy that rattled fans of his 2000s career with the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic.
The rest of the brief report is even more incomprehensible, informing readers that Hunter “handed away” after achieving “vital success as a ahead [sic] for the Bobcats” and “performed in 67 video games.”
It made headlines last month, for instance, after publishing a similarly incoherent AI-generated travel guide for Ottawa, Canada that bizarrely recommended that tourists visit a local food bank.
As a result, as we reported last year, the platform ended up syndicating large numbers of sloppy articles about topics as dubious Bigfoot and mermaids, which it deleted after we pointed them out.
Hunter, initially a extremely regarded highschool basketball participant in Cincinnati, achieved vital success as a ahead for the Bobcats.
Accusing an NBA legend of being “useless” the week he died isn’t just an offensive slip-up by a seemingly unsupervised algorithm, in other words.
The original article contains 882 words, the summary contains 166 words. Saved 81%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
uzay@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Imagine being an AI-generated summary of an article criticizing AI-written articles
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still included a shitty AI generated sentence in there anyways. Not knocking the bot or the creator though. This bot seems pretty good at summaries for the most part.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s even funnier to consider that many publications are probably using AI (or more accurately LLM’s) to pad out their articles. So then you directly get one program trying to lengthen a article and another trying to shorten it.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty cool to be able to watch it happening though
brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
So MSN has started relying on AI to do all of the work for their writing? And they can’t at least proofread it??
pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 year ago
MSN didn't write this. They are entirely responsible for that odd travel article not too long ago, but MSN is mostly just a news aggregator.
orclev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone surprised by this wasn’t paying attention. This is the “AI” apocalypse everyone has been wringing their hands over and dumbass executives have been salivating over. This is exactly the problem with LLMs, they produce very convincing looking content, but it’s not actually factual content. You need teams of fact checkers and editors to review all their output if you care at all about accuracy.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
As is with software developing, actually writing the stuff down is the easiest part of the work. If you already have someone fact checking and editing… why do you need AI to shit out crap just for the writing? It would be easier to gather the facts first, fact check them, then wrangle them through the AI if you don’t want to hire a writer (+ another pass for editing).
LLMs look like magic on a glance, but people thinking they are going to produce high quality content (or code for god’s sake) are delusional.
orclev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah. I’m a programmer. Everyone has been telling me that I’m about to be out of a job any day now because the “AI” is coming for me. I’m really not worried. It’s way harder to correct bad code than it is to just throw it all away and start fresh, and I can’t even imagine how difficult it’s going to be to try to debug whatever garbage some “AI” has spewed out. If you employee a dozen programmers now, if you start using AI to generate your code you’re going to need two dozen programmers to debug and fix it’s output.
The promise with “AI” (more accurately machine learning, as this is not AI) as far as code is concerned is as a sort of smart copy and paste, where you can take a chunk of code and say “duplicate this but with these changes”, and then verify and tweak its output. As a smart refactoring tool it shows a lot of promise, but it’s not like you’re going to sit down and go “write me an app” and suddenly it’s done. Well, unless you want Hello World, and even then I’m sure it would find a way to introduce a bug or two.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think this one is even an LLM, it looks like the output of a basic article spinning script that takes an existing article and replaces random words with synonyms.
BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This seems like the case. One of the first stanzas:
Language models are text prediction machines. None of this text is predictable and it contains basic grammatical errors that even small models will almost never make.
dmonzel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AI doesn’t exist, but it will ruin everything anyway.
youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE?si=voNBJjvvuyzb8oZk
orclev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hah, great video. There was a reason why I put quotes around AI in my response because yes, what’s being called AI by everyone is not in fact AI, but most people have never even heard of machine learning let alone understand the difference between it and AI. I’ve seen a trend of people starting to use the term AGI to differentiate between “AI” and actual AI, but I’m not really a fan of that because I think that’s just watering down the term AI.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
The danger about current AI is people giving them important tasks to do when they aren’t up to it. To put it in War Games terms, the problem is not Joshua, not even Professor Falken, but the McKittricks of the world.
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
This article wasn't even remotely convincing, though.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
There’s the problem right there. The MSN homepage ain’t exactly a pinnacle of superlative journalism.