![]() "I'm not a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Cambridge, I'm a Professor of Human Centered Computing at the University of Oxford. ![]() "It was funny reading the quote itself, because, well, first of all, it gets my affiliation wrong," said Binns, when asked about the experience of being misquoted by an AI machine in published synthetic content. Reuben Binns is also a real person, and the real Reuben Binns is, in fact, an AI researcher who specializes in machine learning, data protection, and the regulation of and by technology.īut as the real Binns confirmed to Futurism, though he doesn't necessarily disagree with this AI-generated quote, he never actually said it. This means that they may not be able to convey the same level of emotion as a human actor.'"Īt first glance, it's a fair assessment. Reuben Binns, professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, points out: 'Robots may be able to mimic emotions, but they cannot feel them in the same way humans do. For example, robots lack the emotion and nuance that a human actor could bring to the role. "There are also some drawbacks to using a robot in the role of Hagrid. The article seems to do some legwork, including a quote from an apparent expert: Though the late - and human - Robbie Coltrane played the beloved character, there was an animatronic Hagrid head used sometimes on the "Harry Potter" set. We should note that there's a remote kernel of reality in here. Take, for example, a particularly nutty January 2023 blog we stumbled across titled " Is Hagrid Played By a Robot? An Exploration of the Possibility." ![]() Upon closer inspection, the text of the site's AI-produced articles is often riddled with misinformation, including AI-fabricated quotes - which, concerningly, are often attributed to entirely real people. The text is generic and lacks backlinks for sources, and the included pictures - a garbled, illegible mess of horrifying, hilarious, or otherwise bizarre images - often appear to be AI-generated as well. Most importantly, of these thousands of published stories, the vast majority contain telltale signs of AI generation. And in this new age of mass-produced online garbage, reality seems to be headed right out the door.Įarlier this week, we stumbled onto a website called The Enlightened Mindset, which appears to be a dark vision of the AI-generated future of the web.Īmong other causes for concern, there's no contact information, and the many thousands of articles in the site's sizable archive only date back to January 2023. ![]() It brings us no pleasure to report this, but: the unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. ![]()
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