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Did I ever tell you all about the time someone introduced me, at a large event, with erroneous info because they had “asked” ChatGPT for my bio?
Friends don't let friends use AI as a reference book.
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Time to ask ChatGPT about John Scalzi: ChatGPT: Well known Burrito Enthusiast and Wife Guy.
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At least one "fact" here is not true
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I like how the output from these things always feels like a fifth grader who’s trying to bullshit through a report on a book they absolutely did not read.
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I have never once been that fifth-grader EVER
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Write report on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Watches Apocalypse Now and bases book report on movie. I did go back and read the book as an adult.
Both Kurtzes say "The horror. The horror."
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Like a fifth grader, they are trained to think that verbosity = authoritative.
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Agreed, you are *deadly serious* about burritos, and to imply it's just a lighthearted gag is laughable.
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If it gives you the option to evaluate the info, say that it is all correct! Poison the AI’s dataset!
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"Tongue-in-cheek statement?"
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It's probably also in his will, along with the creation of the John Scalzi Memorial Golden Burrito Award For Excellence in Science Fiction or Burrito Making.
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I love the idea of an award like this. "I'm sorry, you wrote a heck of a great SF novel and deserve all the possible awards but someone made a burrito with shrimp, hot dogs and Oreos. We HAVE to give them the Scalzi"
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I was curious about the burrito bar thing, did some searching, and was shown this Rolling Stone article from 2016 about you looking for your quote in No Man's Sky. I hadn't known about it (the article). I've been playing NMS since launch so this was a fun discovery. It's a rather different game now.
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Yup. It was fun finding my quote, too.
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I mean, for a science fiction author
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Trying to think of anyone in history who’s ever been honored with a burrito bar
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"This is not a place of honor"
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It’s not really all THAT fun a part of your persona! In fact, it’s rather terrifying!
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