What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
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That scam has been going around lately -@molly0xfff wrote about being targeted a couple of weeks ago.
The scheme appears to be running people's work through the slop generator, using their replying as a screen for potential marks, and then trying to get them to pay the iLands company money to get more of the slop.
(iLands is supposedly operated by one Kaixin Tang, who has been involved with various "AI" startups.)
@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets
404 media also recently had a story about iLands the hosting provider for AI agents begging for money.
https://www.404media.co/ai-agent-platform-reinvents-spam-floods-inboxes-worldwide/
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What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets
I believe the technical name is "some bullshit" -
What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets Welcome to the club.
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@jackemled @sundogplanets Maybe send this: https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
This was sent to a journal that is all too happy to print whatever provided you're willing to pay hundreds of dollars for it and they were sick of getting emails from the journal so they sent this
@trebach @jackemled @sundogplanets This was an absolute classic.
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What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets A bunch of cods swallow.
Sources are probably hallucinated. Nothing there seems legit.
Report it as a scam! I would. -
@sundogplanets A bunch of cods swallow.
Sources are probably hallucinated. Nothing there seems legit.
Report it as a scam! I would.@sundogplanets The other point would be, using legit scientific sources rather than some random pos, AI-slop site.
Too many things to consider this to be a legit response.
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What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets my belief is that the true purpose of A I is to take all known emperical facts and create infinite misinformation referencing soon-to-be-unavailable actual works.
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@sundogplanets AI is terrible for citations. Citations are a huge part of my job (I edit at a journal). All of us journal people are trying to send up the alarm about how much AI screws up citations, and no one is listening. If you ask AI to format your citations it will mess up all your DOIs and make things that look right but are not at all.
JAMA has written a thing on this, which is polite and journal-speak for "oh god, oh god, do not let AI touch your citations": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2852772
@rednikki @sundogplanets And a spokesperson for one of the hospital systems in Mass today said that ChatGPT is perfectly fine for summarizing your medical records for the clinical team because "it gives citations and links for everything it says."
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@sundogplanets Oh, wait, it’s from iLands, which seems to be a known menace. I’ve seen other reports of people getting deluged with spam from iLands agents. It’s probably worth adding the string to all your spam filters.
@angusm @sundogplanets or getting your university's IT people to do the same (this must be happening to many people at your university).
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@sundogplanets Not your job to correct the slop.
'Severus' makes it sound pseudosciencey.@Perfidia @sundogplanets To me it makes it sound like one of those chuds who uses a Roman statue as their icon.
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@sundogplanets AI is terrible for citations. Citations are a huge part of my job (I edit at a journal). All of us journal people are trying to send up the alarm about how much AI screws up citations, and no one is listening. If you ask AI to format your citations it will mess up all your DOIs and make things that look right but are not at all.
JAMA has written a thing on this, which is polite and journal-speak for "oh god, oh god, do not let AI touch your citations": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2852772
@rednikki @sundogplanets The worst thing about this is that citations are boring and finicky and you sometimes have to look in a lot of different places for them and they have to be formatted to spec so it absolutely *should* be the thing that computers do better than humans.
And fucking YET.
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@sundogplanets AI is terrible for citations. Citations are a huge part of my job (I edit at a journal). All of us journal people are trying to send up the alarm about how much AI screws up citations, and no one is listening. If you ask AI to format your citations it will mess up all your DOIs and make things that look right but are not at all.
JAMA has written a thing on this, which is polite and journal-speak for "oh god, oh god, do not let AI touch your citations": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2852772
@rednikki @sundogplanets Feels like it goes back to my rule of 'Never entrust an AI* to something that a deterministic Macro or Tool can do'
*Yes, I know the snarky 'insert full stop here', but to some level, that may not always be an option, and it's not actually helpful in discourse.
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What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
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Mansplaining, without invitation, my own words, with the citations that I used myself. What the actual fuck.
@sundogplanets Botsplaining.
Unsolicited advice is the second worst thing right after unsolicited machine advice.
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What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets AI - should probably not be used for 'fact' checking, as its abilities are yet under -refined in these arenas
Well meaning people, taken in by AI hype - have been mislead - as AI is yet not worthy of leasdership as we have understood it in the distant past (of course not recently as it has been absent from useful form and resonable public knowledge) -
What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets
A fact checking AI bot is like the police investigating a copper who shot and killed an innocent person.
The outcome is certain and you can't do anything about it. If you try to, ICE will disappear you and your goats to the Central African Republic, where things are marginally better than in most parts of the fascists wet dream that is the USA. -
Better don't let AI touch *any* of your science. It's your science after all and you don't want icky AI fingerprints all over it, do you?
@glitzersachen @rednikki @sundogplanets Is it possible for a scientist to misunderstand LLMs badly enough to think that they're a citation or knowledge management tool? Among the general public, that's reasonable ignorance – they're being actively duped by the AI companies. Among scientists, though, it's surely not ignorance but incompetence.
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Thinking about this a bit more, the reason that this confuses me so much is that it's not asking me for anything. It's not the spam I'm used to that's trying to scam money. It's like... it's trying to be helpful (in the most mansplainy way possible, but whatever). But it's a program, a racist pile of linear algebra (as "The AI Con" so beautifully puts it).
Is it trying to get me to reply and train on my email responses? This is so fucking weird.
Anyway, fuck AI, time to snuggle goats.
@sundogplanets
I think it's trying to get a reply from you first and foremost to convince you it is a useful tool, a service you will want to subscribe to.
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Mansplaining, without invitation, my own words, with the citations that I used myself. What the actual fuck.
@sundogplanets I was thinking, 'sounds like something an 'AI' would do, and then I got to the end of the email.
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What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Finally got it: it's a Sign Of The Times.
The bloody things have been busy trying to get Fedi Accounts to harass people, probably where that originated.
We - the human race - are utterly f1cked.
Is there a single electronic source not slopped?
I doubt it.
Meanwhile the slaves to the things are destroying original literature to feed the things.
DNI unless you can be reasonably certain the other party is human and never take emails seriously; appalling the shit you get.
I almost miss the appallingly misspelt, grammatically bizarre Spams I used to get; now they're slop based crap..
*What Masto will read as a like is a reaction:
That only because this instance doesn't have FFS one.
