Imaging generating haystacks at an accelerated rate and calling it progress.

Who knew the gray goo was actually going to be a flood of meaningless text?

Honestly that would make a good sci fi short story. What appears to be a well of knowledge created by an advanced but missing species that turns out to be nothing but well ordered gibberish.

Maybe it spreads to other civilizations that find it and accidentally incorporate it into their technology.

Or maybe they go to war over it and destroy themselves leaving whoever is left to find out that’s its cyber trash.

Not AI related, but the (hard sci-fi) book Blind Sight by Peter Watts explores this from a different angle. He posits that consciousness is expensive and some species may evolve to just "fake it".

Also, space vampires.

Isnt that just the P zombie concept

Tentative title: The Machine Slops

The AI unplugged humanity cause it read a scifi and now its broadcasting bullshit endlessly cause it was built with millenia spanning fail safes.

Gregory Benford

...shit, maybe this is the Great Filter. In which case, fellow humans, it's been nice knowing some of you, and best of luck to the rats or raccoons or cockroaches or whoever ends up taking our ecological niche.

So there is this sentence:

> Check out the full thread and the quote-posts, and you can see I found more such troubling AI-generated ‘definitions’, even embedded via hyperlinks in scientific articles on ScienceDirect.

I warned about this not so long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274487

Plenty more are coming soon, I suppose, and it will be interesting to see what the effect will be upon Elsevier's brand.

So what's the real definition??