[Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"

[Dan Goncharoff]

AI doesn't have consciousness, but it does use logic, and the logical
errors of AI are pretty similar to the logical errors of humans.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 8:16 AM Joe Salmons <
000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Was it Emily Bender who said at WOTY that ‘hallucinate’ makes AI seem like
> it has consciousness or something to that effect?
> Joe
>
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Amy
> West <medievalist at W-STS.COM>
> Date: Monday, January 8, 2024 at 08:07
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Slang Sense of "Catfishing"
> On 1/8/24 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> > Date:    Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:49:27 -0500
> > From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: Slang Sense of "Catfishing"
> >
> > If a machine can invent an apposite title like "Love in the Time of
> Spam,"
> > we may as well admit it's over.
> >
> > I've had even more spectacularly future-dystopic experiences with both
> > Google Bard and Bing, but I'll spare you the details.
> >
> > JL
>
>
> Just earlier this morning I was wondering about the choice of
> "hallucinate" vs. "fabricate" for AIs making up sh*t.
>
> ---Amy West
>
>
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