"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."

[yakyunightowl@mastodon.world]

@Natasha_Jay It sounds a lot like a baseball analytics department full of charlatans working for an easy mark.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Natasha_Jay

I think it is safe to say that we have achieved the heat death of the Internet

[kaito02@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay if the shareholders want to see big numbers it's just better to give them the big numbers /jk

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay grounded human will be needed for oversight for quiet some time

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@dropbear @Natasha_Jay

SHOCKED I TELL YOU

[xethos@mastodon.xethos.net]

@Natasha_Jay "Here's what a functional company's numbers would look like"

Unfortunately, these are not *your* company's numbers

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@Natasha_Jay This offers a glimmer of hope that the managerial class may self-destruct without doing too much more damage to the rest of us.

[liquor_american@universeodon.com]

@Powerfromspace1 @Natasha_Jay you're so close to getting it

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@dropbear @Natasha_Jay

By the way, always delighted to see what is to my understanding a classic prank Auzzies play on tourists

[ferrix@mastodon.online]

@Natasha_Jay @wendynather the "making up plausible shit" machine once again made up plausible shit, continually surprising everyone

[craigduncan@mastodon.au]

@Natasha_Jay

Source is here for anyone interested in it

https://www.reddit.com/r/analytics/comments/1r4dsq2/we_just_found_out_our_ai_has_been_making_up/

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@ferrix @Natasha_Jay @wendynather "Making up plausible shit" is a human consultant's job! AI is going to replace us!

[cptsuperlative@toot.cat]

@Natasha_Jay

No one should be surprised.

It is mathematically impossible to stop an LLM from “hallucinating” because “hallucinating” is what LLMs are doing 100% of the time.

It’s only human beings who distinguish (ideally) between correct and incorrect synthetic text.

And yet, it’s like forbidden candy to a child. Even well educated, thoughtful people so desperately want to believe that this tech “works”

[ferrix@mastodon.online]

@maccruiskeen @Natasha_Jay @wendynather MUPSaaS

[nantucketlit@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay "To an artificial mind, all reality is virtual."

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@0x0ddc0ffee @Natasha_Jay

Remember who funds Ai.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-elon-musks-24b-ai-startup

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/guneyyildiz/2026/02/14/from-resorts-to-robots-saudi-arabias-100-billion-confession/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Disaster Capitalists -- they want another bubble bursting that sends another generation of wealth upwards to the 1%

Global financial crashes & mass dissatisfaction provides the makings for fascist movements & profitable imperialist wars of extraction.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09/03/austerity-is-the-midwife-of-fascism/

https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-next-financial-crisis-is-unavoidable-and-american/

https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/economy-and-ecology/what-will-it-take-to-beat-the-far-right-8599/

[jkrotkov@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

Hallucinating numbers, you say?

It must be learning from the current American administration..

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay #BoycottAI

[only_exception@mstdn.plus]

@Natasha_Jay someone is getting fired

[stefanol@mstdn.ca]

@Natasha_Jay