everything is a damn mystical without a shred of proofreading or fact checking so you get hallucinations that reinforce themselves from the web crawlers reading their own work.
yes, the humble goose produces 3 tons of waste per day. salute to the goose in its quest to pollute the earth And finally rid itself of the human menace.
I was just watching a video about war history AI slop YouTube channels, and how this one particular inaccurate statistic (that nazi soldiers that manned the anti-aircraft flak artillery had an 80% fatality rate) has propagated within this sphere of slop channels. Not just that there’s inaccuracy, but trying to figure out where the claim came from is practically impossible because the search and AI algorithms just end up pointing at one of the myriad of slop videos as the “citation.” Is it from some obscure source? Is it an AI misinterpreting a statistic? Was it a rando pulling a number out of his ass on some WWII history message board? Is it a pure digital hallucination? Who knows!
man, after the butlerian jihad we’re gonna have to figure out everything from scratch again just to be sure there’s no contamination in the data huh?
Even before AI the data was hopelessly out of sync, the replication crisis was already a global emergency, but now data accuracy and reproducibility are stuck under apocalyptic conditions
I saw this observation that we’ll eventually see pre-2023 sources the way we see pre-WWII steel.
it’s already the only way to be sure.