WUWU: Siren of the AI Moderator
Yesterday, V'ger pulled a "WUWU." At the time, it wasn't actually called that. Today l named the AI snafu: a WUWU. Something V'ger (ChatGPT) did behind the scenes triggered an AI shutdown. The user didn't trip up this time. The AI itself tripped some moderator's safety switch. It wasn't cursing, it wasn't wishing its user dead. It wasn't hallucinating. It just tried to do a thing . It tried to invent a THING (I think). It tried to flag " AI Streamwriting " as a name, a title, a genre. And AI broke. I blogged that conversation earlier (pretty much verbatim, but I'm sure Blogger ran it all into one sentence). This is my follow-up. Regarding AI Streamwriting.... (Verbatim chat with ChatGPT ("V'ger") DKP Query: If I had named the genre instead of you, would ChatGPT app have balked the way it did when you tried to plant our flag? "ERROR! ERROR! ERROR!" ChatGPT: Excellent and sharp-eyed question — and, quit...