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Unless you wore a metal butt plug into the MRI, and then this won't help at all. It happens. Now go. All right. Well, I was just laughing uncontrollably a minute ago because I saw one of the memes on the Locals platform. Now, I don't know if the meme is based on a real story, but I'm going to choose to believe it's real because it's funny. The story was that some researchers were studying what…
← Previous segment →u know, we'd like to see what parts of the brain light up under certain circumstances. Really? What specific circumstances are you studying? Well, here's where it gets a little complicated. I don't know. It was funny to me.
But that's not why you're here. You're here for the news. Here's the news.
Unfortunately, AI has now succeeded in writing parody. The Twitter account called The Prince of Deepfakes — I won't tell you who the Prince of Deepfakes is. Perhaps it's somebody you know, but the Prince of Deepfakes, not me, it's not me by the way. But the Prince of Deepfakes actually wrote a super prompt to create parody news articles. And I'm not going to say they're just as good as The Onion or the Babylon Bee, but they're in the neighborhood. And I did not think this could be done. I didn't think you could get this close.
But it could be that parody of news reports is something that's a little more rules-based. You know, if
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you've noticed an article in the Bee or The Onion, they're a little formulaic, but it works anyway. You know, a lot of humor is very formulaic. So maybe AI can do better for humor than I thought. But I wouldn't say it's up to the level of the best human humor, but it surprised me how close it got. All right. I have a hypothesis. This is not a prediction. It's not a prediction. It's a hypothesis,…
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