You’re “joke” had no setup or subversion of expectations. The scientist wasn’t even in AI research. Nothing about it singles it’s a joke. It just reads like you read the same story on a different site with different details.
The relationship to current news about AI mushroom books with the subversion by saying that it was an translation error and not chatgpt making things up. But, mostly, the ridiculousness of it.
That link was posted after my reply to the original comment. I had done some quick searches for “melnikov mushroom amazon” and didn’t find anything that looked right.
You’re “joke” had no setup or subversion of expectations. The scientist wasn’t even in AI research. Nothing about it singles it’s a joke. It just reads like you read the same story on a different site with different details.
Everything about it signals that it’s a joke.
The relationship to current news about AI mushroom books with the subversion by saying that it was an translation error and not chatgpt making things up. But, mostly, the ridiculousness of it.
Anyway, explaining a joke ruins it.
I’ve never seen the AI Mushroom books
it’s linked to in this thread. Hours ago.
Have you not even bothered to spend the few minutes necessary to check that?
That link was posted after my reply to the original comment. I had done some quick searches for “melnikov mushroom amazon” and didn’t find anything that looked right.
WTF it was posted 9 hours before your post.
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It wasn’t my joke, but nonetheless it was a joke