"'"I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses,'" Buscaglia said." 1)THIS IS NOT BACKGROUND! THIS IS MAKING UP ENTIRE BOOKS! WHICH ARE THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE! - ThreadSky

older.bsky.social • 9 days ago

"'"I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses,'" Buscaglia said."
1)THIS IS NOT BACKGROUND! THIS IS MAKING UP ENTIRE BOOKS! WHICH ARE THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE!

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bitplaya.bsky.social•9 days ago

This was an ad. It’s an ad posing as an article. Not an article written by newspaper staff.

bitplaya.bsky.social•9 days ago

Exact term is advertorial

older.bsky.social•9 days ago

ok but it's an ad for books that don't exist! nobody can buy them! not a very effective ad!

bitplaya.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes but that’s not the paper’s concern.

gabesmall.bsky.social•9 days ago

Given how easy it is to mistake these for articles (that's the entire point of the format) it should

albinogoth.bsky.social•9 days ago

I feel it is as if still reflects poorly on the paper. No one cares it was an ‘advertorial’.

gabesmall.bsky.social•9 days ago

It eloquently speaks against the practice of "advertorials"

302czar.bsky.social•9 days ago

Well gee.

richburroughs.dev•9 days ago

lol yes

blonicyouth.bsky.social•9 days ago

“I oNLy UsE wikipEDia aS a juMpiNg oFF pOInT”

fidelioscabinet.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fuck this guy.

hutchymon.bsky.social•9 days ago

I always check except this time

older.bsky.social•9 days ago

always. and it's just the background, I do all the real work myself.

asakiyume.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's literally the soul of the job. If you're writing an article on books, how are you not researching the books yourself? It's not hard. You can get lists from publishers. You can look at bestseller lists, you can--etc.
If you're asking AI for any of that, what the hell is the point? (1/2)

asakiyume.bsky.social•9 days ago

I feel like there's this deadly RUSH in people's lives--no doubt pressure put on them by bosses--but it's a rush to what? Your life is gone at the end, and you've generated garbage instead of something worthwhile. It's like turning a blind eye if your company is marketing melamine as milk...(2/2)

baltech.bsky.social•9 days ago

Now that you mention it, yeah, feels like everyone is rushing. Maybe because there is this quiet sound in the back of people's minds, last call, pub's about to close.

kevocontent.bsky.social•9 days ago

The billionaires who run this world demand no less. Sometimes, the person making the mistake is just as fucked as the rest of us.

asakiyume.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh, I think usually! With the exception of the billionaires, we're all just squishy human bits caught in the crushing gears.

asakiyume.bsky.social•9 days ago

So yeah... why did I come down so hard on the guy. IDK, I guess I want us to sometimes think we can walk away. I get that it feels impossible, but is it? Sometimes we can find other options.

kevocontent.bsky.social•9 days ago

I’m willing to bet that the dude who did this is creating these lists at ridiculous scale and barely has enough time to breath much less put out anything resembling quality. In this economy and culture, it’s not like a “content creator” has any leverage in the job market.

older.bsky.social•9 days ago

2)THIS MAN HAD ACCESS TO FREE BOOKS BEFORE THEY CAME OUT, AND NOT ONLY DID HE NOT READ THEM, HE COULDN'T EVEN BE FUCKING BOTHERED TO COPY-PASTE THE FUCKING TITLES! COMEMIERDA!!

older.bsky.social•9 days ago

3)WHAT ABOUT THE AUTHORS WHOSE BOOKS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE? THIS BENEFITS LITERALLY NO ONE! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

mariahaskins.com•9 days ago

I'm getting my pitchfork.

aphotic-ink.bsky.social•9 days ago

I have five saws, one of which is a butcher's saw.

Just putting that out there.

fatale-distraction.bsky.social•9 days ago

TJR literally has a book coming out soon and instead of plugging that actual real book, AI was used to just. Make up a fake one.
Also the irony that one of the only real books on that list is Atonement, a book about what happens when you lie about shit.

kikishelf.bsky.social•9 days ago

Allende has new one to, just not that one.

fatale-distraction.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thanks for letting me know! Adding it to my tbr right now

kikishelf.bsky.social•9 days ago

I wonder if that is true about every author on there with a fake book. I knew about Allende but not about TJR

bowlerhatscience.org•9 days ago

I occasionally get books my friends/colleagues write before they're published and ... argh

baltech.bsky.social•9 days ago

"this time, I didn't" translates to "I never check and I got caught"

golvio.bsky.social•9 days ago

“But the computer is my friend! The computer would never lie to me! Why can’t you just trust computer like I do? 🥺”

flushes.bsky.social•9 days ago

I simply won't be able to sleep unless I see a photo of this idiot in a 1930s unemployment line

magidin.bsky.social•9 days ago

... and using "AI" for "background" is just as stupid. It's not a search engine summarizer, people!

blyesford.bsky.social•9 days ago

And we’re back to zero again.

stevepuma.bsky.social•9 days ago

This AI thing is going about as expected. The AI is going to destroy humanity, not by attacking us with terminators and nukes, but by making us do the dumbest shit imaginable.

themanfromrio.bsky.social•9 days ago

Dude wanted to call it an early night.

uhandreak.bsky.social•9 days ago

"I use it for background", phrases that don't mean anything

"at times", perhaps every time

bowlerhatscience.org•9 days ago

This isn't a whoopsiedoodle, this is a fireable offense

shankspeare.bsky.social•9 days ago

And AI is now used by both teachers and students in school. Fucking Joy.

sunshade.blue•9 days ago

“I don’t write my own articles and should not be considered to have journalistic integrity. Don’t read stuff that says it’s by me”

vancemaverick.bsky.social•9 days ago

or: I always write my own stuff, except for this one time, and a little bit every time

sunshade.blue•9 days ago

I’ll try that excuse next time I’m in a performance review

mindovermuses.bsky.social•8 days ago

I prefer @bencollins.bsky.social's list myself, but I prefer my fake books to be made by people, not AI.

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lpmxvqecak2v

kawotter.bsky.social•9 days ago

Why should someone who admits to passing off 100% of their work to AI without even proof-reading "just one time" ever be taken at their word that they haven't done so going forward?

This is a declaration you can never be trusted to do anything an AI could (badly) imitate, ever.

brucearthursaz.bsky.social•9 days ago

No excuses? No job.

debcha.bsky.social•9 days ago

But also -- he wrote an article knowing that the ENTIRE AUDIENCE of the article were READERS who CARE ABOUT BOOKS (at least to some degree). Did you think they wouldn't notice? Can you even think of an audience that would be more likely to notice? And what did you think would happen when they did?

older.bsky.social•9 days ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

debcha.bsky.social•9 days ago

[sorry I was so gobsmacked I accidentally broke my rule of 'no rhetorical questions on social media']

older.bsky.social•9 days ago

they are good questions! that clearly nobody thought about at all because

✨style✨
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substance

kevinriggle.bsky.social•9 days ago

An article whose whole purpose was that people would go “huh that sounds neat!” and go buy the thing!! Assuming that it, you know. Existed.

kevinriggle.bsky.social•9 days ago

THIS is the kind of LLM usage which I describe as a self-solving problem, and we are here solving it (by spreading social opprobrium)

debcha.bsky.social•9 days ago

I gather it was basically an advertorial and he managed to fail resoundingly on both parts, which is actually kind of impressive.

transsexu.al•9 days ago

It reminds me of the several cases where lawyers have submitted AI written briefs to the court with references to nonexistent cases. Like, did you really think the judge and opposing counsel wasn't going to check? It's their entire job, just because you're too lazy to do yours doesn't mean they are!

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