I have this contract I'd like you to sign....

That was what killed real D&D. (Well, really it's successors did.)

I don't know the licensing policies of the "stock image" sites, but it's not unreasonable that they might have a license to use stock images, rather than that particular stock image. In which case it could have been left in by mistake. I believe lots of companies use lots of stock images for a variety of different purposes.

Now if they licensed that particular image, then he's almost certainly lying rather than just probably lying.

I'm not saying you could do that with one of the public versions of ChatGPT. But I think an LLM could be custom trained to do it. I also think it would take a *LOT* of time and effort. Probably enough to make this a silly idea.

Previous comments have been drawing analogies to Black Mirror, but this "idea" goes back much further...

...This is an episode of Max Headroom (US version).

Specifically, S02E02: "Deities." A company claims to be able to bring past loved ones back to "life" as an AI, for a modest recurring fee. But Bryce (the creator of Max Headroom) opines they can't possibly have the compute power to do it, as it requires a large mainframe just to run Max's highly flawed, glitching bust.

Wouldn't surprise me if the "visionaries" behind this saw that episode, and saw an opportunity to fleece gullible rubes.

And how is that different from the Washington Post or the New York Times, or most of the mainstream newspapers?

It *is* possible that his silly explanation is the truth. That they just accidentally left a "fill in later" image in place. (There's a reason text users frequently use "lorem ipsum" for that kind of purpose.)

ChatGPT making up things and incorrectly following policy would merely be in line with the current editorial pool, who ignores policy when it suits them and fabricates material if an article has any kind of political content.

This strongly depends on which AI and what environment it's operating in. I do suspect that an AI could be trained to follow "organization policies", but I also suspect that with current AIs that would require LOTS of custom training.

How recently did you suggest a new story?

(Slashdot has NEVER been good with news. That's not really what it's about. It's about commentary on news stories.)

Possibly, I've never played paintball. That might be a synonymous derivation...or perhaps in that context it has a different meaning. If people are understanding it from different original metaphors, it's likely to mean (slightly?) different things to different people. E,g,, I could have derived it from titrating from an acid down to a base, and that would have LOTS of different associated meanings, even though the "touch" part would mean (metaphorically) the same thing.

How do I know you didn't really send it in utf-8?

It's a metaphor you need to guess at in everything except baseball. Sometimes the metaphor is fairly clear to the listener. Other times it's only clear to (at most) the speaker.

Miller actually isn't the worst.

Are the jobs really there, or are they just being advertised? I've read a lot of comments about "ghost jobs".