General Discussion

the story and author were real. Claude doing a search with any search engine would also have shown that it's a real story.

Hell, Anthropic illegally used so many books for training that Claude might've been trained on the story.

I don't understand why everyone isn't outraged by the theft of the world's knowledge and intellectual property by AI robber barons. What they stole was worth trillions, and everyone involved in the IP theft belongs in prison.

And what's called the AI pollution of our information ecosystem is a catastrophe. GenAI is destroying people's ability to find out what's real and what isn't.

If all the AI bros spent the rest of their lives in prison, and their companies were sued out of existence, it still wouldn't begin to atone for all the harm they've done in just a few years.

And as for coding - one OP I posted about Matt Shumer the other day quoted an article Gary Marcus had linked to, about how unsafe AI-generated code is. It mentioned a survey showed half of developers trust AI coding so much now that they aren't even checking the code. That's a lot of catastrophes waiting to happen.

And then there's AI wrecking education and harming the natural environment...

GenAI is the most harmful tech ever developed, and the stupidest.