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  • Re: Worldcon AI scandal

    From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Fri May 30 20:56:57 2025
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    In article <vve4fc$2k3$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
    According to >https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
    the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.

    Not exactly. A later statement explains a bit more detail about how it was used. Some information and some more detail can be seen at:

    https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/

    I'm still not happy with ChatGPT being used but the issue was not as
    serious as originally described.
    --scott
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  • From Evelyn C. Leeper@evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Sat May 31 06:27:25 2025
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    On 5/30/25 8:56 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
    In article <vve4fc$2k3$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
    According to
    https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
    the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.

    Not exactly. A later statement explains a bit more detail about how it was used. Some information and some more detail can be seen at:

    https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/

    I'm still not happy with ChatGPT being used but the issue was not as
    serious as originally described.
    --scott


    And certainly not as serious as the White House health report which was released the other day with fictitious references, false claims about
    what was in actual papers, and a variety of other problems indicative of
    AI hallucinations.

    The White House described them as "formatting errors".
    --
    Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
    "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
    child, I thought as a child: and when I was a man I decided
    how foolish it would be to give all that up." --Mark R. Leeper
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  • From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to rec.arts.sf.fandom on Sat May 31 11:15:23 2025
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    Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
    And certainly not as serious as the White House health report which was >released the other day with fictitious references, false claims about
    what was in actual papers, and a variety of other problems indicative of
    AI hallucinations.

    The White House described them as "formatting errors".

    This is true although I think that the issues in the white house are not
    due to artificial intelligence but a lack of the natural kind.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2