![]() The Enlightened Mindset is clearly a trash fire.īut as far as the SEO of it all goes, the site is nothing to dismiss. Of course, it's not like Binns is being misquoted by an AI in a New York Times article. (To use an example of a more public figure, Bill Nye has never won the Carl Sagan Memorial Award, nor the Stephen Hawking Award for Science Communication, nor has he been admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, as an Enlightened Mindset article titled " How Old Is Bill Nye The Science Guy? An Exploration" purports.) These fabricated attributions primarily concerned academics, often with similarly jumbled titles and attributions, on occasion including nonexistent books or unwon accolades. To that point, while digging through the Enlightened Mindset's vast archive, we found more cases similar to Binn's. your name not being something that you control anymore," he added, with "your public persona not being something you control anymore." In a few years' time, this will not be an unusual experience for anyone whose name is on the internet somewhere." "It's not unexpected," said Binns, positing that eventually, "this is gonna happen to loads of people. And unfortunately, the real Binns suspects the phenomenon might just be getting started. Indeed, the way the AI seems to have drummed up a reality-adjacent version of the researcher, and even supplied a fake quote based on this machine-dreamt character seems to mark a distinct, AI-driven loss of control over one's own public image. And regardless of whether the quote is plausible, it doesn't change the reality that he never actually said it. Still, said Binns, if he were actually to weigh in on the topic of robot actors, he would have said something a bit different. "And then the quote itself," he added, "I don't disagree with it - I think I kind of agree with it." although in the grand scheme of things, those two things, the title and the affiliation, are not that far apart." "I'm not a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Cambridge, I'm a Professor of Human Centered Computing at the University of Oxford. "It was funny reading the quote itself, because, well, first of all, it gets my affiliation wrong," said Binns, when asked about the experience of being misquoted by an AI machine in published synthetic content. This means that they may not be able to convey the same level of emotion as a human actor.'" ![]() Reuben Binns, professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, points out: 'Robots may be able to mimic emotions, but they cannot feel them in the same way humans do. For example, robots lack the emotion and nuance that a human actor could bring to the role. ![]() ![]() "There are also some drawbacks to using a robot in the role of Hagrid. The article seems to do some legwork, including a quote from an apparent expert: Though the late - and human - Robbie Coltrane played the beloved character, there was an animatronic Hagrid head used sometimes on the "Harry Potter" set. We should note that there's a remote kernel of reality in here. Take, for example, a particularly nutty January 2023 blog we stumbled across titled " Is Hagrid Played By a Robot? An Exploration of the Possibility." Upon closer inspection, the text of the site's AI-produced articles is often riddled with misinformation, including AI-fabricated quotes - which, concerningly, are often attributed to entirely real people. The text is generic and lacks backlinks for sources, and the included pictures - a garbled, illegible mess of horrifying, hilarious, or otherwise bizarre images - often appear to be AI-generated as well. Most importantly, of these thousands of published stories, the vast majority contain telltale signs of AI generation. And in this new age of mass-produced online garbage, reality seems to be headed right out the door.Įarlier this week, we stumbled onto a website called The Enlightened Mindset, which appears to be a dark vision of the AI-generated future of the web.Īmong other causes for concern, there's no contact information, and the many thousands of articles in the site's sizable archive only date back to January 2023. It brings us no pleasure to report this, but: the unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here.
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