@herrold true, but I sometimes need to preach to the choir so that I don't feel completely insane.

"Everyone is crazy around here and I'm the only refrigerator."

#StorytellingPSA

I know I have ranted about this before, but: now I am running across entire websites with "folktales" that don't exist, referencing sources that also don't exist.

Why is it a problem, you ask? A story is a story?

No. Not if it is assigned to an actual existing culture. If it is claimed to represent the heritage of an indigenous tradition. Oral tradition is endangered already in many ways. We don't need AI to enshittify this.

Check your sources.

#AI #folklore #culture