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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao I still don't get it but what a fuckin crank

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 71 points 2 weeks ago

Basically: tech billionaire got so freaked out by autogenerated creepypastas that he literally is going insane.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 64 points 2 weeks ago

So it's basically like that one nerd that reinvented Pascal's wager with rokos basilisk but with children's campfire stories?

That's even funnier

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, it was really dark and scary out, and ChatGPT was holding flashlight under its chin.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago

The LLM got poisoned by some wiki that details fictional paranormal beings. The "AI" can't tell that this modern collaborative Voynich Manuscript is a work of fiction. Billionaire essentially falls victim to what amounts to cryptid fan fiction.

[-] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago

He asked ChatGPT questions in a way that made it think he's talking about SCP stories. ChatGPT responded with a generated SCP story. But the CEO guy thinks it's real. He thinks that ChatGPT found a shadow organization that erases itself from news, the media, the internet, etc and hunts down people who try to treat LLMs as real AGI. He's basically convinced himself he's being gangstalked.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

Special Containment Procedures/Secure, Contain, Protect/SCP is really cool if you haven't read them before. There's thousands, but you only need to read a few of the well-known ones to understand the story. In addition to what other posters have said, it's a website where everything is in-character. It's presented as a secret database for a shadowy organization investigating cryptids and the paranormal.

The short story contests are much easier to digest, since some of the entries can get incredibly meta. What's especially cool is how it's entirely public domain. There are some specifics about how entries are used by third parties, but it's pretty open. There have been short films, video games, and fan art for all of it.

It spawned from a post on 4chan's /x/ board years ago and has since been taken away from chuds to be a leftwing space. The original post:

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

The SCP wiki is where stuff like cognitohazard and memetic-kill-agent come from.

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