Is Forbes' Bruce Lee an AI? (www.forbes.com)
from spockmay@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.ml on 08 Aug 2023 02:00
https://lemmy.world/post/2843777

Seriously. Read this article and tell me that he actually is a real, English speaking, human. Or maybe just really extremely high? Then what editor in their right mind published this?

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eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 02:04 next collapse

But the EG.5# is one umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh, that you probably don’t want to stand under because it can still give your Covid-19 and potentially long Covid.

lol

Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social on 08 Aug 2023 04:29 collapse

There's no way in hell an AI wrote that, only a human brain can come up with something that cheesy

WaLLy3K@infosec.pub on 08 Aug 2023 09:50 collapse

Bruce Lee wanted his article to be Spruce-ee

JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works on 08 Aug 2023 02:16 next collapse

How many articles are they writing a day? Often the AI authors will have tens or hundreds, whereas a human would have maybe 1 or 2 max.

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 02:43 next collapse

his recent average is around once a day

dbilitated@aussie.zone on 08 Aug 2023 04:05 collapse

Bruce Y Lee is only producing one a day but if you include Bruce A through X Lee, you get a lot more articles…

mo_ztt@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 02:16 next collapse

I think Bruce Lee is a human whose brain is just functioning poorly because he has to work for a news outlet that isn’t very good.

He’s not allowed to simply write, “A new strain of COVID is spreading, but nobody knows if that’s important or not. Least of all me. The end.” He has to write a full length article or he won’t be paid. And so, this.

jeffw@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 02:35 next collapse

Reading his bio, he seems legit. Just has a quirky sense of humor.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 02:40 next collapse

What. The article was a good read!

He/it did a good job making this drab topic somewhat interesting to read. If it’s an AI then it’s a very good one and those striking writers better start looking for a new job.

spockmay@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 02:45 collapse

I totally agree. It is easily the most informative article I’ve read on the new covid variants and all their strange names. It was even sourced! I’ve just never read anything with such an … unusual… sense of humor!

dbilitated@aussie.zone on 08 Aug 2023 04:04 collapse

he could easily just be a bit burnt out and be using chat gpt to give him the bones of an article and a bunch of “amusing” phrases and stringing it together himself.

it’d probably what I’d do if i was a journo right now.

EnderWi99in@kbin.social on 08 Aug 2023 03:33 next collapse

I think the AI reporting is actually the more bland and uniform stuff. It's cheesy as hell, and I think that's one of the things that suggest to me that it was written by a person. I'm not a fan of this particular style personally, especially around serious topics, but it's at least informative and I can see why plenty of people might enjoy reading it.

Sentrovasi@kbin.social on 08 Aug 2023 05:57 next collapse

I don't think OP is guilty of this, but a lot of people think that current AI-generated content is going to sound like something that doesn't know how to be human or what humour is. That's a fundamental misunderstanding, I believe, that thinks that the LLMs that are popular now have any kind of actual sentience, and simply lack experience or understanding.

Fundamentally, they'll instead sound like exactly the most average or boring (but informed) person, except maybe a bit more repetitive, because they're trained on data and not coming up with independent thoughts. Someone who writes in a unique way and has a unique sense of humour is far less likely to be an AI than the average (yet somehow more accepted) everypost.

ArugulaZ@kbin.social on 08 Aug 2023 06:25 next collapse

"Bruce Lee" sounds like a pseudonym. Either that or the guy had a painful childhood.

MolochAlter@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 13:44 next collapse

He would join HAL in having an acronym that’s shifted by 1 letter: IBM>HAL, AI>BL.

spockmay@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 2023 11:37 collapse

Close. In reality AI shifted becomes…BJ 🤯

MolochAlter@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 2023 12:42 collapse

Oh LMAO, i was thinking of the classical latin(/italian) version of the alphabet. I always forget j and k.

wordman@lemmy.ml on 09 Aug 2023 00:43 collapse

An actual AI working for Forbes would have managed to get in a dig at Apple in the headline.