# Omnibus AI Screwups Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [August 18, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747 "2023-08-18T04:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/1 "2023-08-18T04:03:33Z")
It occurred to me after encountering a couple examples today of articles that weren’t written by a human being completely tone-deaf, offensive, or just plain wrong, that we don’t really have a place for collecting them and marveling at poor decision-making that went into letting chatbots try and take the place of human writers. So here’s a few to get the ball rolling; Microsoft Travel lists the Ottawa Food Bank as a must-see tourist attraction and recommends coming on an empty stomach > **[Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/)** > > AI-penned Microsoft Travel article recommends food bank as a must-see destination. Google makes an AI to assign ads to Youtube videos, it decides not to filter which ones are appropriate for children, and breaks federal law about tracking children online [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google-children-privacy.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google-children-privacy.html) Discuss and share. ---
**Author:** ![wjChia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wjChia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wjChia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/2 "2023-08-18T04:22:50Z")
There’s now a bunch of AIs scraping video game subreddit discussions to generate articles; the WoW and Destiny communities started making fake discussions to troll the scrapers, and lo and behold: > **[WoW players spring trap on hapless AI article generators, tricking a site...](https://www.pcgamer.com/wow-players-spring-trap-on-hapless-ai-article-generators-tricking-a-site-into-writing-about-a-hotly-anticipated-and-totally-fake-glorbo-feature/)** > > Glorbo is obviously made-up, but I'm seriously worried about this Klikclac thing. > **[It's Glorbin' Time again! Now Destiny 2 players have tricked an AI site using...](https://www.pcgamer.com/its-glorbin-time-again-now-destiny-2-players-have-tricked-an-ai-site-using-the-fake-boss-glorbo/)** > > Last week, WoW players cooked up a fake boss to mess with AI-generated websites. Today, guardians got in on the fun. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/3 "2023-08-18T04:33:12Z")
I wonder sometimes if AI has been let loose on “jazz” background music. There are any number of sites on YouTube that play different kinds of background music, and apparently one of the most popular genres is jazz. They all seem to sound the same – piano, bass and drums, noodling around, mostly sounding kind of glum and unhappy, which is not what I want in background music. Sometimes the music sounds a little off, like the piano and bass playing in different keys or something. It’s disturbing without being interesting. Sometimes I like to have background music, but I can’t listen to that stuff for very long. So, in the spirit of the day, I’ve been wondering if AI was to blame. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/4 "2023-08-18T04:44:12Z")
New Zealand supermarket chain Pak 'n Save released a recipe-generating chatbot, ‘Savey’. Trouble is, at least in its first iteration, you could enter pretty much every ingredient, and it would generate a ‘recipe’, which ran the gamut from merely unappealing—like an ‘Oreo vegetable stir-fry’—to the outright dangerous, like an ‘aromatic water mix’ which would’ve produced [chlorine gas](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/08/pak-nsave-s-ai-meal-bot-suggests-recipes-for-toxic-gas-and-poisonous-meals.html). It was even quippy about it—‘It combines the invigorating scents of ammonia, bleach, and water for a truly unique experience!’. Or, about a ‘poison bread sandwhich’ (at least being up front about it), ‘Why did the bread become friends with the ant poison flavored jelly? Because it could never resist a toxic relationship!’. It’s since been replaced with a version where you can only select from a fixed list of ingredients, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/5 "2023-08-18T04:55:43Z")
Had a friend in college. He was from Guam, and therefore was not going home for Christmas Break. I invited him along to spend the holidays with me at my girlfriends house. He managed to report the night we had a stripper in the house a while back. Girlfriend was not happy. Goddammit, Alvin. Keep quiet about that shit! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/6 "2023-08-18T04:57:34Z")
…I’m not sure you meant to post that in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/7 "2023-08-18T04:58:20Z")
We all called him Al. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/8 "2023-08-18T05:15:13Z")
Al-------vin!!! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/9 "2023-08-18T09:23:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Microsoft Travel lists the Ottawa Food Bank as a must-see tourist attraction and recommends coming on an empty stomach It’s probably been reading about [this](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41264965) tosser. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/10 "2023-09-14T20:43:15Z")
MSN publishes an AI-written obituary calling a recently deceased NBA player “useless” and saying that he “achieved vital success as a ahead [sic] for the Bobcats” and “performed in 67 video games.” > **[Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player...](https://futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless)** > > Microsoft's MSN news portal published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article that derided Hunter as "useless" in its headline. > [@](#): > > Most obviously, a quick perusal of _Race Track_’s profile shows that it has been using _MSN_ to publish an uninterrupted stream of incoherent gobbledygook. One particularly [ridiculous article](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/pleasure-taylor-shares-her-ideas-on-aaron-rodgers-harm/ar-AA1gD9fK?ocid=social-peregrine&cvid=de82b38ab90b496a8f9ff66d6c84e1a1&ei=10) profiles a “Corridor of Fame” football player called “Pleasure Taylor,” which appears to be a mangled reference to NFL Hall of Famer Joy Taylor. > > Another [unintelligible recent piece](https://archive.ph/cT33R) slapped together by _Race Track_ and republished by _MSN_ bungled the story of [Kevin Porter Jr’s arrest for domestic violence](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38386284/girlfriend-rockets-kevin-porter-fractured-vertebrae), misstating facts as basic as the name of NYU Langone Medical Center, which it referred to as “Langone Medical Heart.” ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747/11 "2024-03-15T23:38:47Z")
Here’s a link I came across after reading one of the computer problem threads here. It’s starts off intelligible and then digresses into nonesence conflating “computer memory” training with “human memory” training. > One of the main benefits of using DDR4 memory training is that it can help improve your memory retention. This is because DDR4 memory is much faster than DDR3 memory, which means that it can process information more quickly. This means that you will be able to remember more information for a longer period of time. [https://vtechinsider.com/what-is-ddr5-memory-training/](https://vtechinsider.com/what-is-ddr5-memory-training/)