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GolfPopper ◴[20 Oct 24 20:15 UTC] No.41898170[source]▶
I've yet to find an "AI" that doesn't seamlessly hallucinate, and I don't see how "AIs" that hallucinate will ever be useful outside niche applications.
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Ekaros ◴[20 Oct 24 20:18 UTC] No.41898196[source]▶
I believe that there is lot of content creation where quality really does not matter. And hallucinations don't really matter. Unless they are legally actionable, that is something like hate speech or libel.

Throwing dozens of articles, social media posts and why not even videos. Hallucinations really don't matter at scale. And enough content is already generating enough views to make it somewhat viable strategy.

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n_ary ◴[21 Oct 24 15:42 UTC] No.41905356[source]▶
I read(or watched?) somewhere that, to build your social media reputation and popularity(i.e. follower count) organically, you must post daily, something, anything.

An interesting idea would be to automate a cronjob to ask LLM to generate a random motivational quote(more hallucination is more beneficial) or random status and then post it. Then automate this to generate different posts for X/Bsky/Mastodon/LinkedIn/Insta and you have auto generated presence. There is a saying that, if you let 1000 monkies type on a type writer, you will eventually have a hamlet or something.. forgot the saying, but with an auto generated presence, this could be valuable for a particular crowd.

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1. JohnMakin ◴[21 Oct 24 16:08 UTC] No.41905608{3}[source]▶
People are already doing this in a much lazier way en masse on instagram - they'll steal someone's content, lots of times it's shock/violence content that draws in eyeballs, and will post it. Since they need a description for IG's algorithms, they just paste a random response to a LLM prompt into the reel's description. So, you'll be presented a video of the beirut explosion and the caption will be "No problem! Here's some information on the Mercedes blah blah blah."

Once they reach critical mass, they inevitably start posting porn ads. Weird, weird dynamic we're in now.