Do Androids Dream of Fake Books?

Chronicles ^ | May 9, 2025 | Alexander G. Rubio

[Angelino97]

Turns out that when AI doesn't know, it pretends it does and makes up stuff.

Then it denies lying.

[MotorCityBuck]

Fake Boobs? What. Never mind.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Amazon is polluted with thousands of books written by AI. Every scam artist and shyster
now publishes their schlock on Amazon. It is really really sad that AI is pushing out legitimate scholarship.

[lee martell]

Tap Dancing around the truth: One of the Cornerstones of becoming a functioning Human Being in a secular society!
Keywrds: Diplomacy/Lying/ White Lies/ Dogwhistles/NotgivnganF .

[fireman15]

People also make a lot of “videos” with AI. They collect a bunch of photos of something like dead celebrities using AI, they then use AI to make them into a slide show and write a related script. Then they have an AI character read the script. There are a bunch of familiar AI voices that give these videos away.

Here is a link to a free program that does this...

https://invideo.io/make/slideshow-maker/

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Fiction was used to program pattern recognition into the LLM.

I might also add that this fiction was used without the permission of the authors and no royalties have been paid.

It is not surprising that when the LLM run into something they can not answer they "run home to momma" or to put it another way they return to fiction.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I kind of want to know what the story was. I don’t recall ever having read it.

[William of Barsoom]

Bopamagilvie.

[scrabblehack]

There are quite a few fan fiction sites out there...I would think trying to sell something in the fiction market would be very hard.

You’re probably right about junk crowding out good nonfiction.

[Big Red Badger]

So ‘AI’ can And Does Lie.
.
Houston
We have a Problem.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

You are right. Mostly nonfiction getting hosed. I know my way around the fiction books enough not to get screwed.

[packagingguy]

I was just using Grok for work today, it had a brain fart and started giving nonsensical answers to questions I never asked.

This seems to happen when you let the conversation go on too long; it was like talking to an autistic teenager at our church. You can talk to her but after a while she starts spewing nonsense.

[PeterPrinciple]

Turns out that when AI doesn’t know, it pretends it does and makes up stuff.
Then it denies lying.
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Sounds like the kid at the hardware store that doesn’t know anything but still gives me an answer...............

[Bob434]

I’m writing one right now using AI- Several AI infact- and lemme tell ya, no, it’s not a process of ‘Auto-book creation”- there is still a TON of work to do- I will have AI write a few paragraphs, and then i go in and REWRITE it mostly- because while AI is fairly good at creating a story premise, it isn’t great- and needs a lot of help- One thing is is good at is writing a scene in a way that you might not have thunk about- and can lead in new and interesting directions

One very interesting site is an AI “Show don’t tell” site which takes a scene where we write blah ‘telling’ scene- and it turns it into “show’ scene- way more visual scenes when you get stuck trying to describe something in a show don’t tell manner-

[al baby]

Thats how I read it too

[Openurmind]

AI-Aptitude Intrusion.

[dynachrome]

Possibly “Deathworld” by Harry Harrison? A short novel.

“Along the way, Jason has to figure out how to survive a planet that seems designed to kill all human life with poisonous animal and plant attacks, how to get along with much stronger and stubborn and closed-minded native Pyrrans, and determine what is behind the planet’s violent reaction towards anything human.

This story explores the themes of ingrained beliefs, ability to change perspective, and how those aspects affect survival and the capability to thrive.”

[MotorCityBuck]

I think there is something wrong with me.😉

[Openurmind]

AI - An Illusion.

[NorthMountain]

You too, eh?