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God, does anyone remember the ZDK ARG?

#I just miss it a lot #It was my favourite thing to come out of tumblr #zdk 12 #ZDK 11 #zdk #zdk 10 #ZDK12 #Zdk10 #ZDK11 #delete later //

Low standards in tech reporting on AI are bad because:

A lot of people believed that IRIS/ZDK12 was real.

And whoever was running that blog either wasn’t actually trying very hard to keep the story plausible, or just wasn’t doing a good job. Didn’t matter! People don’t understand how this stuff works, so they got emotionally attached to the character, got in heated arguments with each other about its feelings, felt offended or threatened or proud when it learned to be aggressive, and grieved when it was “damaged.”

There are probably a few who still don’t know it was a work of fiction. Those people are going around with the idea in their heads that it’s possible for some college computer science students to develop a conscious AI in their spare time using Python. This is obviously going to skew their understanding of how a lot of stuff actually works.

#iris #iris ai #iris ar #zdk12 #zdk 12 #zdk-12 #i saved a file of reactions of varying levels of credulity while that was going on #i feel like i should follow up on the believers and publish it somewhere eventually