AI hallucination or just WTF???

[dgauss]

I simply entered the phrase "Chyron of Sauron" into an AI tool (no need to ask why) and this is the response:

If the Dark Lord Sauron ran Mordor's 24-hour cable news network, the chyron (the text overlay banner at the bottom of the TV screen) would have some truly incredible breaking news updates.

Here is what the Mount Doom Broadcasting Network (MDBN) feed might look like during the late Third Age:

[LIVE] [11:59 PM] ─── ORODRUIN WEATHER: 850°F / ASH SHOWERS / ACCUMULATION UP TO 4 INCHES ───
🚨 BREAKING NEWS
MINAS MORGUL: WITCH-KING CONFIRMS "THE RIDER IN WHITE" IS IN FACT THAT OLD MAN ON THE DONKEY • BARAD-DÛR: EYE OF SAURON SPOTS UNLICENSED INFANTRY IN ORE-FIELDS; MASS FLOGGING SCHEDULED FOR 0600 • UDÛN VALLEY: MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE SEMESTER

📈 MARKET WATCH
▲ GROND INDUSTRIES (+14.2%) | ▼ ROHAN HORSE BREEDERS (-98.1%) | ▲ MITHRIL FUTURES (+44.0%)
LATEST UPDATES
SECURITY ALERT: Border Patrol reports two "unusually small, heavily cloaked intruders" bypassing the Cirith Ungol checkpoint. Citizens are urged to report any sudden local disappearances or unexplainable glowing swords.

MILITARY DIRECTIVE: Reminder to all Captains: Orcs and Uruk-hai are strictly prohibited from settling internal HR disputes via lethal blade combat until after the Siege of Gondor is concluded.

LEGAL TROUBLES: Local Shelob defense attorney claims "trespassing halflings" provoked the web-spinning incident; calls for immediate dismissal of all cocooning charges.

[COMING UP NEXT] ─── 'THE RE-FORGING HOUR': ARE THOSE ELVISH RIN

[Tasmanian Devil]

1. I gave it to Gemini

It came back with something similar. Including a picture that claimed to be a "Live look from the Barad-dûr studio camera. Source: GTHIC"

So it appears to be treating it as a prompt to generate fiction.

[dgauss]

2. Thanks, that makes sense.

[FadedMullet]

3. I'm glad something does.

[GreatGazoo]

4. All of AI output is hallucination

It is a machine trying to predict what words in what order you will find acceptable or entertaining. It does not think or reason or contextualize. It is 54% accurate (basically coin flip) on prompts for which it was not fed answers and still only 92% accurate when it was given the answer. The majority of its input comes from scraping Reddit and about 40% of Reddit is bots so AI is turbo charging its insanity; blowing smoke up its own behind.

Easily and regularly manipulated:
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/