SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was following a ChatGPT recipe for risotto. “I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much […]
I laughed out loud at this one. The Onion is not disappointing in these absurd times.
They’re my heroes for that
It used to be easy to tell, but these are honestly not even unrealistic.
This headline isn’t far from the guy who
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/florida-family-sues-google-after-ai-chatbot-allegedly-coached-suicide/
That’s the sweet spot of satire, I think. Just a little bit further than the truth, just slightly over the edge - to remind us how absurd reality has become. Good satire helps us not to get numb.
But that’s sort of my point. There isn’t an edge to go over.
A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn’t succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there’s life after death and they’ll be together.
Holy shit, Gemini straight up Tyler Durdened him
Right? See my point now, about how it must be kinda challenging, to put it mildly, for the Onion in these times?
I just can’t believe anyone who knew about this would ever wear glasses with this tech built into it. Let me just put my mindless sui-fuel fantasy goggles on, I just can’t live without 'em ha ha!
It’s like the opposite of the glasses in They Live
Wait, what? Way to bury the lede, Jesus Christ! Now I’ll read the damn article!
Right? In my experience I’m always finding lots of good stuff missing the spotlight deeper in articles.
The linked article had very scent into and made the story sound much more bland than it was. I had to read more elsewhere to get the weird bits
Sure there is. We can always stoop lower.
Oh.
I stand by my above statement but it is now more frightening.