"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."

@Natasha_Jay its not magic its a tool / if you don't understand marh, a scientific calculator does you no good / sounding like a bunch of boomers its 2026 yall / learn the tools before you deploy

@sodiboo @drahardja @indigoviolet the reason I know of for breaking the link (by using hxxp) is when you don’t want to contribute referrer data to the linked site. Reddit doesn’t need to know we’re talking about them.

@maniaclives @sodiboo @indigoviolet Correct. Referrer attribution, plus it prevents your server (or your local machine) from pulling or showing a preview from the site.

@drahardja @Natasha_Jay any idea why the moderators deleted the post?

@Natasha_Jay Saying it is hallucinating gives it too much intellectual credit. It is incapable of hallucinating. GenAI bullshits patterns into something that has a probability of looking like what was requested. A model doesn't know right or wrong. It doesn't understand anything. It doesn't think. It bullshits. This firm implemented a bullshitter that has no intelligence and are somehow surprised that it has been producing bullshit.

@craigduncan @Natasha_Jay post was removed by mods. here's a screenshot of the full text

@stragu @Natasha_Jay No idea.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dropbear if only dropbears were a prank.
Poor Hans, Svetlana, Xie, Bharati and Chuck.
And not to mention the hoopsnake victims..

@Natasha_Jay
LOLz
When will people learn to not overly trust AI

@catbrainz @Natasha_Jay did this post just get deleted? search isn't digging it up for me

@catbrainz @Natasha_Jay ah. yes. here it is, deleted, although folks can read comments still apparently https://www.reddit.com/r/analytics/comments/1r4dsq2/we_just_found_out_our_ai_has_been_making_up/

@Natasha_Jay also an example of wise men not liking math. Tabulating data and doing calculations is too tedious. Give me a simple summary in English. I'll make snap judgements with the help of gut instincts or masculine intuition.

@Natasha_Jay A lot of people are of the opinion that AI is useful but you have to check the results. I get this at work all the time. This would be an argument for using it (not a particularly good one but still) if I didn’t know just how bad people are at checking and proof reading anything. Humans make errors all the time but the volume of errors is constrained by our output speed. AIs aren’t constrained so we have no hope of keeping up with their output to check it.

@Natasha_Jay how did they caught it by accident? Isn't that one of the first steps you do with data to check if it actually works?
So they could have just hired some random who will throw dice and even that would be a more sound business decision because at least then you have someone who takes accountability?
All these people worked with the data and not once did it click that the data doesn't align with their previous data?

Something about AI makes people turn off their brain

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
What did people think the "generative" in "Generative AI Tool" meant?

I fail to see how that is wrong. It is a computer program doing exactly what it was programmed to do. Its programmer doesn't know what exactly is in that code, doesn't change that fact.

@cmthiede @Natasha_Jay @jwdt hm surely the investors then pulls out the "due diligence" argument.

If you are so stupid to trust an AI and even more stupid of expecting other people to pay for that then surely you're lacking above mentioned due diligence and are unable to lead a company

@Epic_Null @Natasha_Jay @davidr yeah it's a system failure.
the failure is so bad you need to investigate how such a bad decision could have ever been made and you need to change your process

@Natasha_Jay
Well, AI for professionals & experts is a tool for the expert who is in charge and responsible.
The kind of use of AI described here is for *general public* AI, i.e. where the user has no idea how correct it is & shouldn't even have to care as long as it is reasonably plausible.
Professionals, experts & businesses can NEVER blame the "AI" for the hallucinations they take as truth.

@Natasha_Jay @drahardja some people really don't grasp what innovation is. Randomly running in a random direction is not innovation.

Surely the same people think the luddites just had a dislike for looms or something

@sodiboo @drahardja @indigoviolet @maniaclives i usually just put a space at an obvious location
otherwise readers might spend forever looking for the mistake