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Remember the NPCs in Castlevania II telling you to do stuff like getting a silk bag from a graveyard duck?

Congrats! Now you've got *an entire cast of that*!

*shakes head*

The last three books about the Choctaw language & culture that I've bought have *ALL* turned out to be just AI-generated junk🤬

It's genuinely infuriating to see this careless nonsense happening, as it dilutes the actual language and culture and makes it harder for me to learn about my own humanity

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

(Tangential to that: Like so many others in the thread, I was decent at higher math but not arithmetic, but even then I find so many academic papers in machine learning to be an absolute headache to read because they're written by and for Math People and that is just not how my brain works.)

There are definitely *parts* of CS that are more math-centric - things like algorithmic efficiency being related to combinatorics, or (an especially big focus lately) machine learning and neural networks being rooted in linear algebra.

As a child this use of arithmetic as a gate keeping function also made me incredibly angry - because I recognized how stupid, cruel, and irrational it was even then.

Fellow dyscalculic here, and *yes*.

The things I've always found most interesting about programming were the more linguistic/conceptual aspects - formal grammar, logic, data representation, etc. - not the "mathy" stuff.

But so many people think of computer science as math!

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

can't believe they brought back the .com bubble too

Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in 'Largest Domain Purchase in History' Is this what a frothy bubble looks like?

Definitely getting ".com bubble" and "crypto bubble" vibe from all the AI-related Super Bowl ads this year.

One ad got me curious enough to look up who owned the incredibly generic (but certainly expensive) domain name in it, and… uh… yeaahh, no comment.

Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in 'Largest Domain Purchase in History' Is this what a frothy bubble looks like?

Looked up who owns the domain advertised in that ad, and, uh. That...explains a lot.

That ad managed to make a *puzzle hunt* unappealing to me.

Last two commercial breaks have (at least partially) been captioned. Looks like someone finally noticed and/or bugged the appropriate people.

(Now if only the advertisers could bother with the same on their YouTube uploads...)

Has NBC somehow managed to screw something up with their Super Bowl broadcast so that none of the commercial breaks are airing with closed captions for the past hour and a half?

(To be fair, none of the ads have interested me enough to *want* to know what's being said…)

Micro Machines for NES is another classic example of that! Licensed by Galoob, unlicensed by Nintendo.

As someone who really struggles to understand overlapping voices and yelling in general, and particularly when stressed, I know that it would be so easy to “disobey orders” when several cops are screaming them all at once

Looking at that Yukihito Morikawa interview again, it answers that question as well!

Tsunekazu Ishihara is cited as the person who introduced Morikawa to the Amiga. He was a graphic designer on Earthbound and Super Picross, both of which use the Topaz font on their anti-piracy screens.

Something I will never understand is why so many people using AI generators for text and images don't even review or proofread the output before sending it out into the world.

Like, I expect this kind of trash from faceless slop accounts. But from writers publishing under their real names?!

Oh, there's no "probably" about it. One of the OP's TikTok posts shows that one of the AI-generated images has a forged Netter signature on it! www.tiktok.com/@liaaa.bia/p...

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

At the very least, that professor is certainly willing to use the gets-everything-wrong machine to generate educational infographics for Instagram.

An AI-generated image with the title "imaging Wednesday - Cell Structure: Explore organelles & their functions". The center of the cell has labels of "Nuleus" and "Nucelous", both placed along its edges. The membrane network under it is labeled "Enodopmisch reticulum". The group of small circular organelles to the right of that is labeled "Smouth".

The professor in question also has an Instagram with such… helpful?… diagrams as this one. Literally *not one* of these labels is correct! www.instagram.com/p/DOb3BkBEY1i/

The one other use of an Amiga font in a JP game that caught me off guard is the anti-piracy screen from Mother 2/EarthBound. Given HAL's history with Commodore, I suppose it'd make sense that someone there stuck with them.

Huh, this explains why the Amiga Topaz font shows up in both Sound Fantasy and the stage select screen from Jumping Flash. I'd always wondered about that!

It's interesting to me that several of these quotes mention using AI tools provided by Westlaw or LexisNexis, under the assumption that big names in legal research wouldn't have put out a product this flawed.

(An honestly reasonable assumption! But clearly not a correct one…)

For the curious, the original title of that video (which reproduces the issue on Google Translate):
なかなかご飯を食べない少食のリリーです　Great Pyrenees　グレートピレニーズ

Curiously, just changing the spaces to standard ASCII ones also changes the translation:
"Lily is a small eater who doesn't eat much. Great Pyrenees"

A YouTube thumbnail showing a title auto-translated from Japanese: "Lily is a Great Pyrenees cat who eats very little." The preview shows Lily, who is, of course, a dog.

Tech bros: "AI will replace human translators any day now!"

The AI:

Nice!

Incidentally, the difference in the "Y" and proportional spacing aren't Tiertex's doing; later versions of DPaint also changed those. (My conversion was based off the original release, which is what I had as a kid.)

Neither the original tweet nor the screenshot here had any alt text (which seems all too on-brand for Newsom), so this was honestly more than my face-blind self got out of it!

("Hulk angel and...uh…two random dudes…laying hands on, uh, is that supposed to be Newsom? I'm not sure…")