Martin Dolan
@martindolan.bsky.social
Poet. Recovering bureaucrat.
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I took a friend to a Geoffrey Hill poetry reading in Leeds during my student days and it was all I could do to stop him shouting this out.
March 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I took a friend to a Geoffrey Hill poetry reading in Leeds during my student days and it was all I could do to stop him shouting this out.
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NEW: Google AI claims haggis is a real animal in embarrassing blunder
Google AI claims haggis is a real animal in embarrassing blunder
GOOGLE'S "experimental" AI service has been caught out for telling web users that the traditional Scottish dish of haggis is in fact a…
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March 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
NEW: Google AI claims haggis is a real animal in embarrassing blunder
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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These systems aren't "hallucinating" - this is exactly what you expect from a word order guessing machine
If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning
If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning
A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist.
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
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When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
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Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Say It’s a ‘Cautionary Tale’ For All Law Firms
The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.
www.courtwatch.news
February 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
These systems aren't "hallucinating" - this is exactly what you expect from a word order guessing machine
If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning
If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning