Wait do you reckon that could be fictive? The thought didn't cross my mind and I had a blast reading it. I sure hope it was real.
Wait do you reckon that could be fictive? The thought didn't cross my mind and I had a blast reading it. I sure hope it was real.
I think the PR from an agent sounds legit, but the whole part once the alleged operator joins in sounds fishy. Wouldn't be surprised if someone saw the PR comments and used the username mentioned by the agent to troll around in the chat. It would also mean that the AWS creds were probably stolen and their expiration date was truly a hard limit for the whole operation.
FWIW a friend of mine who's part of DN42 told me they had seen it live (but didn't pay much attention) and that it was a bit funny when I shared that link with him.
Is LLM output "real" or "fiction"?
It's actually all fiction, it's just that a lot of it happens to line up with reality, thanks to a lot of coercion.
IMO, that's what makes the tech so amazing.
I consider it on-par with LinkedIn posts. It inhabits a nether-space between reality and fiction where names, numbers and buzzwords are thrown around without much concrete connection to reality.
The LinkedIn MBA hive-mind doesn't give a shit about reality, it gives a shit about what it could be fired for saying/not-saying. It must always be saying something, what it is saying must promise growth, and what it is saying must sound similar enough to what the long-tail of influential business "luminaries" (who are bound by the same rules) are saying. It is required to frame thinking in terms of techno-babble and pop-psychology (thank you for coming to its TED talks). It is not allowed to reflect, wring its hands, think critically, lean on math, logic or history, or contradict the S&P 500. It does not care, for example, if NFTs are an obvious scam, or if we're headed for an obvious bubble, or if nobody who interfaces with reality for a living agrees with what its saying. When it errs and lights trillions of dollars on fire it shrugs and moves on. It's a babble-box with no epistemic commitments and a very thin referential connection to reality.
It nevertheless has the power to shift literal trillions of dollars of capital over time.