Twitter AI says
April 17, 2024 1:16 PM Subscribe
Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree. "In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear."
For anyone confused by the post title and description: Twitter's new "grok" feature published the above accusation after a copy-paste joke started going around about how Thompson, who went 0-10 in the game last night, was "throwing bricks" through the windows of Sacramento homes. "Throwing bricks" is a term for shots that don't even reach the rim.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:22 PM on April 17 [34 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:22 PM on April 17 [34 favorites]
Computers not getting a joke? Noooo. Really?
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:23 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:23 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
BEEP BOOP BEEP DOES NOT COMPUTE
posted by aubilenon at 1:24 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
posted by aubilenon at 1:24 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
sheesh, sounds like the poor guy is having a bad enough time right now...
posted by supermedusa at 1:25 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 1:25 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
sheesh, sounds like the poor guy is having a bad enough time right now...
TYPICAL SOFT ON CRIME METAFILTER LEFTIE
posted by clawsoon at 1:27 PM on April 17 [29 favorites]
TYPICAL SOFT ON CRIME METAFILTER LEFTIE
posted by clawsoon at 1:27 PM on April 17 [29 favorites]
“Grok is an early feature and can make mistakes. Verify its outputs.”
This is more of a colossal fuck-up that could only really happen on Twitter.
posted by NoMich at 1:27 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
This is more of a colossal fuck-up that could only really happen on Twitter.
posted by NoMich at 1:27 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
I would love it if it weren't just a joke tweet ingested at face value, but instead people deliberately pissing in the pool that the LLM swims in. Would kinda love that.
Even better, the next LLM training round will ingest those, plus the article and all the people that reblogged and/or responded to it-- and Klay will become even deeper embedded in the links between the Klay-Brick-Vandalism.
So here's to humanity:
I sure hope Klay Thompson finally gets arrested for throwing bricks through that window.
posted by Static Vagabond at 1:30 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
Even better, the next LLM training round will ingest those, plus the article and all the people that reblogged and/or responded to it-- and Klay will become even deeper embedded in the links between the Klay-Brick-Vandalism.
So here's to humanity:
I sure hope Klay Thompson finally gets arrested for throwing bricks through that window.
posted by Static Vagabond at 1:30 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
This is more of a colossal fuck-up that could only really happen on Twitter.
Pretty sure it could happen anywhere people are using “AI” as a source of truth.
posted by Artw at 1:31 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
Pretty sure it could happen anywhere people are using “AI” as a source of truth.
posted by Artw at 1:31 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
Somehow Draymond will get blamed for this.
posted by vunder at 1:32 PM on April 17 [6 favorites]
posted by vunder at 1:32 PM on April 17 [6 favorites]
its weird too, cause bricks can be made out of Klay...
an aside, I'm low-key looking for work and there were listings for AI-training. I was like "oooh I could work there and be a monkey wrench in the system bwah ha hah!!!" but I don't have the right tech qualifications.
posted by supermedusa at 1:42 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
an aside, I'm low-key looking for work and there were listings for AI-training. I was like "oooh I could work there and be a monkey wrench in the system bwah ha hah!!!" but I don't have the right tech qualifications.
posted by supermedusa at 1:42 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
I checked with CoPilot and apparently it doesn't know about Jamie Loftus' serial killings in Grand Rapids.
posted by charred husk at 1:45 PM on April 17 [6 favorites]
posted by charred husk at 1:45 PM on April 17 [6 favorites]
Am I missing something, or are the two ostensibly human-generated joke tweets from "fan accounts" that are featured in the article suspiciously similar to each other? As in: nearly word-for-word? Is it possible one or both were actually also AI-generated? And possibly even the article itself?? And what about this FPP??? Are all of you just a bunch of goddamn robots?????
posted by Atom Eyes at 1:51 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 1:51 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
Are all of you just a bunch of goddamn robots?????
TYPICAL HARD ON ROBOTS METAFILTER HUMAN
posted by clawsoon at 1:53 PM on April 17 [15 favorites]
TYPICAL HARD ON ROBOTS METAFILTER HUMAN
posted by clawsoon at 1:53 PM on April 17 [15 favorites]
BRICKS THROWN THROUGH YOUR WINDOW?
CALL KLAY’S GLASS
posted by sixswitch at 1:56 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
CALL KLAY’S GLASS
posted by sixswitch at 1:56 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
ANKLES
posted by sixswitch at 1:56 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
posted by sixswitch at 1:56 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
Klay has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing (throw real bricks through some Sacramento windows).
posted by mullacc at 2:11 PM on April 17 [14 favorites]
posted by mullacc at 2:11 PM on April 17 [14 favorites]
I kind of loved Grok's breathless reporting on the eclipse: "Sun’s Odd Behavior: Experts Baffled." (gizmodo)
"it went on to explain that the sun had been, 'behaving unusually, sparking widespread concern and confusion among the general public.' ... "The news item claimed that even with the public’s growing concern, 'there has been no official statement or explanation from scientific authorities regarding the sun’s current state.'"
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
posted by taz at 2:12 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
"it went on to explain that the sun had been, 'behaving unusually, sparking widespread concern and confusion among the general public.' ... "The news item claimed that even with the public’s growing concern, 'there has been no official statement or explanation from scientific authorities regarding the sun’s current state.'"
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
posted by taz at 2:12 PM on April 17 [5 favorites]
"Throwing bricks" is a term for shots that don't even reach the rim.
no, bricks are shots that bounce off the iron or the glass
shots that don’t even reach the rim are airballs
posted by emmling at 2:23 PM on April 17 [21 favorites]
no, bricks are shots that bounce off the iron or the glass
shots that don’t even reach the rim are airballs
posted by emmling at 2:23 PM on April 17 [21 favorites]
That AI-generated headline is cold. If X did that to me... major beef.
posted by infinitewindow at 2:45 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
posted by infinitewindow at 2:45 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
So this is another "Elon's responsible for a shitty thing" post, not a "Klay snapped and threw bricks outta nowhere for real" post. Just gonna clarify that here.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:52 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:52 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
Coincidentally one of the west’s premier manufacturers of clay pipe and tile is located just outside of Sacramento. They really out to hire Klay as a spokesperson.
posted by CostcoCultist at 2:57 PM on April 17 [3 favorites]
posted by CostcoCultist at 2:57 PM on April 17 [3 favorites]
Yeah, spend enough time observing/laughing at the meme-stock community and you realize there are genuinely a huge number of people who barely understand anything about how the world works, are very convinced that they're correct about everything, and who will believe literally anything that makes them feel good about themselves and their choices, reality be damned.
...so, point being, in a few years we can look forward to Mr. Thompson being shot like a dog in the street because Grok said he represents an immediate threat to the community, as a consequence of some people making offhanded jokes about sportsball performances.
Not kidding.
(shudder)
posted by aramaic at 3:09 PM on April 17
...so, point being, in a few years we can look forward to Mr. Thompson being shot like a dog in the street because Grok said he represents an immediate threat to the community, as a consequence of some people making offhanded jokes about sportsball performances.
Not kidding.
(shudder)
posted by aramaic at 3:09 PM on April 17
I sure hope Klay Thompson finally gets arrested for throwing bricks through that window.
He was going to be, but a fly landed on the warrant printer and they ended up arresting someone named Kray Thompson instead. It was a real nightmare for him!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 3:23 PM on April 17 [8 favorites]
He was going to be, but a fly landed on the warrant printer and they ended up arresting someone named Kray Thompson instead. It was a real nightmare for him!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 3:23 PM on April 17 [8 favorites]
This is more of a colossal fuck-up that could only really happen on Twitter.
Perhaps you haven't heard of Musk's other AI-using company? At least Grok isn't driving 5000 pound cars and killing people.
posted by Nelson at 3:29 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
Perhaps you haven't heard of Musk's other AI-using company? At least Grok isn't driving 5000 pound cars and killing people.
posted by Nelson at 3:29 PM on April 17 [7 favorites]
After seeing what Grok did here, Craig James is sweating profusely
posted by azpenguin at 3:58 PM on April 17
posted by azpenguin at 3:58 PM on April 17
Seems like Klay Thompson continues to do statistically improbable things.
posted by alikins at 4:18 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
posted by alikins at 4:18 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
The sun?
I'll see myself out...
posted by May Kasahara at 4:54 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
The sun?
posted by May Kasahara at 4:54 PM on April 17 [2 favorites]
Klay has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing (throw real bricks through some Sacramento windows).
Isn’t this basically the plot of Minority Report?
posted by leotrotsky at 5:52 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
Isn’t this basically the plot of Minority Report?
posted by leotrotsky at 5:52 PM on April 17 [4 favorites]
shots that don’t even reach the rim are airballs
"Klay Thompson's bizarre vasectomy spree causes panic"
posted by Gorgik at 8:30 PM on April 17 [10 favorites]
"Klay Thompson's bizarre vasectomy spree causes panic"
posted by Gorgik at 8:30 PM on April 17 [10 favorites]
I would love it if it weren't just a joke tweet ingested at face value, but instead people deliberately pissing in the pool that the LLM swims in. Would kinda love that.
Like Nightshade or.... umm... that other one I can't remember just now?
posted by pompomtom at 8:31 PM on April 17
Like Nightshade or.... umm... that other one I can't remember just now?
posted by pompomtom at 8:31 PM on April 17
sheesh, sounds like the poor guy is having a bad enough time right now...
It's a man's game, I hope he doesn't get his feelings hurt.
posted by yeahwhatever at 8:34 PM on April 17
It's a man's game, I hope he doesn't get his feelings hurt.
posted by yeahwhatever at 8:34 PM on April 17
"Throwing bricks" is a term for shots that don't even reach the rim.
Slight semantic correction: a "brick" is a missed shot. An "airball" is a shot that doesn't touch the rim.
Klay had an extraordinarily bad night...for a guy who once scored 37 points in one quarter back in the day against the Kings.
posted by Chuffy at 8:43 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
Slight semantic correction: a "brick" is a missed shot. An "airball" is a shot that doesn't touch the rim.
Klay had an extraordinarily bad night...for a guy who once scored 37 points in one quarter back in the day against the Kings.
posted by Chuffy at 8:43 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
Am I missing something...
I followed the link to Twitter, and every one of the replies uses those exact same words. The only difference seems to be that some are embellished with the brick, car lamp and police officer emojis, and some have a picture added.
posted by BCMagee at 10:21 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
I followed the link to Twitter, and every one of the replies uses those exact same words. The only difference seems to be that some are embellished with the brick, car lamp and police officer emojis, and some have a picture added.
posted by BCMagee at 10:21 PM on April 17 [1 favorite]
Klay had an extraordinarily bad night...for a guy who once scored 37 points in one quarter back in the day against the Kings.
0 for 10 is not a good night for anyone. It's not like this would have been decent from a nobody bench player.
posted by Dysk at 12:45 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
0 for 10 is not a good night for anyone. It's not like this would have been decent from a nobody bench player.
posted by Dysk at 12:45 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]
The question of what a "brick" is, exactly, results in some nuanced discussion on r/nba. Opinions range from "every miss that's not an airball" to:
Waaay back in my playing days, a brick was a shot in which the ball didn't spin backwards adequately, or Just lacked touch. Such a ball would land heavily in the rim or the board like it was square, hence the brick thing.posted by clawsoon at 4:41 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
A player with these capabilities would be a brick layer.
Are all of you just a bunch of goddamn robots?????
I am not a robot, thank you very much.
I am cake.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 5:33 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
I am not a robot, thank you very much.
I am cake.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 5:33 AM on April 18 [3 favorites]
Now imagine the AI comes up with something more horrible to misreport about a specific person. Old Elmo better have his lawyers ready.
posted by teece303 at 7:28 AM on April 18
posted by teece303 at 7:28 AM on April 18
When I Googled for "basketball throwing bricks" the first two links were:
https://wattsbasketball.com/blog/what-is-a-brick-in-basketball - which starts out with "A brick in basketball is the name for a shot that does not reach the rim."
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/tp3j17/where_did_the_basketball_term_brick_come_from/ 0- for which the text preview in Google read: "Throwing a brick means it never got height and dropped too soon."
Clearly both incorrect! My apologies for the bad info in my comment which was meant to inform.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:05 AM on April 18
https://wattsbasketball.com/blog/what-is-a-brick-in-basketball - which starts out with "A brick in basketball is the name for a shot that does not reach the rim."
and
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/tp3j17/where_did_the_basketball_term_brick_come_from/ 0- for which the text preview in Google read: "Throwing a brick means it never got height and dropped too soon."
Clearly both incorrect! My apologies for the bad info in my comment which was meant to inform.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:05 AM on April 18
Bricks are just missed shots. It's more of a taunt that anything else, as in "today you are throwing enough bricks to build your momma a shack".
An airball is a brick that doens't even touch the rim or backboard.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:28 AM on April 18
An airball is a brick that doens't even touch the rim or backboard.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:28 AM on April 18
Here's a fun link about some all time brick shooting:
Embarrassing NBA records
TIM HARDAWAY SR. went 0-17 from the field, so 0-10 is childs play.
Shaquille O'Neal went 0-11 from the free throw line.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:34 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
Embarrassing NBA records
TIM HARDAWAY SR. went 0-17 from the field, so 0-10 is childs play.
Shaquille O'Neal went 0-11 from the free throw line.
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:34 AM on April 18 [2 favorites]
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record
posted by Artw at 9:37 AM on April 18
posted by Artw at 9:37 AM on April 18
A shot that never leaves the player’s hands is called an “orb”, and the rulebook declares this a kind of technical foul called a “pondering”. It can lead to a suspension from both the game and consensus reality, depending on the player’s saving throw.
posted by cortex at 4:48 PM on April 18 [4 favorites]
posted by cortex at 4:48 PM on April 18 [4 favorites]
Not gonna lie,before reading the article I thought this was more racial profiling from the AI.
But after reading the article and seeing that Klay Thompson is not Black - or at least not dark-skinned - I see that it is I who have racial profiled.
posted by subdee at 7:08 AM on April 19
But after reading the article and seeing that Klay Thompson is not Black - or at least not dark-skinned - I see that it is I who have racial profiled.
posted by subdee at 7:08 AM on April 19
> Atom Eyes: "Am I missing something, or are the two ostensibly human-generated joke tweets from "fan accounts" that are featured in the article suspiciously similar to each other?"
Imho, it's likely a form of copypasta shitposting. On Twitter, it's sometimes hard to separate it from just plain joke stealing/plagiarism but once it reaches a certain critical mass, the point of the joke/meme becomes its identical presentation across multiple accounts.
posted by mhum at 1:32 PM on April 19
Imho, it's likely a form of copypasta shitposting. On Twitter, it's sometimes hard to separate it from just plain joke stealing/plagiarism but once it reaches a certain critical mass, the point of the joke/meme becomes its identical presentation across multiple accounts.
posted by mhum at 1:32 PM on April 19
Thanks, mhum! I suspected it might be something like that.
posted by Atom Eyes at 3:00 PM on April 19
posted by Atom Eyes at 3:00 PM on April 19
Anyways, while it's fun to laugh at yet another of Elon's dumb moves, I can't help but think of this story in the context of the AI chatbot that NYC launched that told people to break the law and the Air Canada chatbot that lied about Air Canada's policies. It truly seems to me that there's a massive lack of responsibility and accountability among people who deploy these AI-powered gizmos in public. On the one hand, yes, there's a long history of software makers disavowing any ill consequences from using their software, possibly taking their cues from Visicalc who may have been one of the first to do so. On the other hand, I don't think Visicalc had any bugs of the 1+1=3 variety as these AI tools seem to have.
posted by mhum at 3:48 PM on April 19 [1 favorite]
posted by mhum at 3:48 PM on April 19 [1 favorite]
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