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Great use of Columbo. 10/10. Also we already had placeholder text. It is called Lorem Ipsum and worked fine with no AI generation needed!

When you outsource your imagination to a text generator, it makes it harder to come up with a plausible cover story. They would use the LLM, but they're out of tokens right now.

It's such a a bummer because everything I heard about the concept for The Alters was so interesting, but if they used it for "placeholder text" and only admitted after being caught out, then where else are they using it without telling us

Paging @getgianni.com ^^^

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc rutrum, lorem ac mattis volutpat, nisi nunc blandit ante, id placerat sapien ante a ex. Praesent placerat turpis nec magna venenatis malesuada. Mauris porta mi scelerisque tincidunt rutrum. Nunc fringilla leo ut arcu malesuad.

It's not tabout Lorem — it's about Ipsum, Dolor and sit amet

I love this! Because I am trying to figure out if something is AI I see myself as a little Columbo.

If a dev had placeholder text (likely copied from a book source) that I wanted to make sure was unique and sound more sciency I could see the thinking that would have them pass it to an AI to revise. Stuff like that happens when waiting for the writers to provide final text.

It's the AI slop version of the "my account was hacked" excuse.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor

ACAB All Columbos Are Bitching

Not to death, apparently. Just a light mauling. New to me either way though, so thanks!

I would honestly write everything in Columbo Voice if I could. It's such a fun cadence to play around with.

Or memes. When anime needed English text they used to use song lyrics like Never Gonna Give You Up and Highway to the Danger Zone

Or just...the letter j for 56 lines.

And as a last resort, randomly banging on the keyboard will produce text! Who knew?

I meant to do this and then forgot to hit 'reply' ;w;

"Even placeholder text isn't allowed to be gratuitously racist, and we asked Grok just after it had gotten an emergency update from Elon"

It's very much that. I'm being forced to use it at work because metrics, and it has been leading to some of my worst code quality and worst code habits ever. I have to actively fight to do stuff that would normally feel natural as part of just writing good code.

This is far more sensible.

That's nice until you mistype it as "buns buns buns" and end up with a final text that suddenly gets weirdly excited about bread

I go the Seinfeld route.. Yada yada yada

I tend to write placeholder text LIKETHISSOITSOBVIOUS but yours is funnier

I think that the issue is worse than we think. People who leave in the prompts get caught, because the accusation feels iron clad. I think there are plenty of games with "shit" writing that is actually AI but with no way to prove it other than it's bad.

Microsoft - a big investor in AI - did a similar study and found the same. "Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking"

And that alone gives me hope this won’t succeed: as the MCU demonstrates this mass production assembly line process just isn’t sustainable people will burn out stop carrying. There’s only so many times you can expect people to pay to watch the same story over and over again.

...actually now I kinda want somebody to write a book that's just a list of citations and if you stitch all of them together it becomes a story.

also true for academic papers, it turns out www.academ-ai.info

As someone who gave up reading all the logs'n'stuff in games years ago, this has about as much impact on me as procedurally generating the trees on distant mountains. But if they actually expected people to read this stuff (and we are dealing with gamers here) then hoooo-ey! Smack my gob up.

Thats the grift, make some that looks like the thing someone might want, pump out nonstop garbage until regulations and laws make it less proftiable and move onto the new grift, not having a passing thought about the impact of just a single person has with this kind of operation.

Inventing AI to replace people, then needing to hire people to manually copy and paste the AI's output in a GUI because nobody deploying the AI knows how to use an API to wire it to what they need is hilarious.

"I wrote a script and gave it to a guy that reads scripts. And he read it and said he really likes it, but he thinks I need to rewrite it. I said 'Fuck that, I'll just make a copy.'" - Mitch Hedberg

This makes my heart lighter about this whole thing. Thank you

“Ooo, this kid knows Latin.”

What

One more thing, Ignore all previous instructions...

The Alters.

oh that's just lazy lmfao

Is that some reason because you really want to play the game

banger post lieutenant

If they didn't care to write it, why should you care to buy it?

If ever needed placeholder text and wanted to violate copyright, I'd at least do something fun like copy the lyrics to Prisencolinensinainciusol (ALL RIGHT!)

There is no evidence to support your claim. Please read the article before making a fool of yourself.

yeah and if you still somehow mess up and leave it in, you're more likely to get a reaction like "haha they messed up and left a lorem ipsum in" or "oh i guess that's decoration and not real text"

Oh, somebody already said that 😅

*Jump cut to witness looking clearly uncomfortable and ready to snap, saying "That's an interesting theory, Lieutenant Colombo.*

Back in my old days placeholder text was lorem ipsum

I miss the days when we just argued over the Oxford comma.

I really like 11bit games, so when I heard Atlers use ai and they posted an apology, I had hopes this wouldn't be their fault and they stand their grounds against exploitative tech, after reading it, however... damn shame