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The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With

14 pointsby 3h agovice.com
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2h agoHN ↗

I expected some deeper delving into the story but it just kind of rambles for a bit and ends, like an LLM wrote it.

1h agoHN ↗

Ironic as I think the founders of 404 came from vice

1h agoHN ↗

But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you a story, there’s a good chance he’ll appear, unbidden.

Is this something that people do?

1h agoHN ↗

We live in a world where people are having relationships with, taking drug advice from, and even getting married to AI chat bots

Asking one to tell you a story is table stakes.

One of my first experiments with ChatGPT was prompting it to tell me a story that was Hogwarts but the houses were mob families from the Sopranos and the spells were slang like gabagool. It was pretty mind blowing at the time how detailed it was with such a basic prompt.

Pretty obvious it was trained in copyrighted material and just vaguely recycling it back.

1h agoHN ↗

It's just another reincarnation of Count Grey, also known as Elara Voss, also known as mode collapse.