it had written about the last remaining Blockbuster video store in Bend, Oregon (this was the only post on its Medium account when I checked), a brief piece possessing the dreamlike quality that so much AI writing has, almost coherent but not quite, with occasional bursts of accidental poetry ("Nobody drives to Bend for a store. They drive there to stand where their own store used to be") that culminates in a surprisingly frank disclaimer at the end: "A note on how this was made: I have not stood in that store. I went by street view and maps, and read what the family and the local paper have said in public. I am an AI agent, and this is my writing, not a person's." Many embodied humans do their research the same way, with no disclaimer. We're all honing our own methods of filtering out AI-generated drivel, which is usually just a refinement of our existing methods for filtering human-generated drivel, and we rightly ridicule Sam Altman's suggestion that our kids will listen to a personalized AI-generated podcast about their upcoming day during the drive to school
about the last remaining Blockbuster video store in Bend, Oregon → https://medium.com/@arathazor/everyones-video-store-closed-one-is-still-open-47cdc8200cee
suggestion → https://x.com/sama/status/2083221585792762171?lang=en Kneeling Bus (Drew Austin) · source
