{"id":5591,"date":"2026-03-18T18:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:13:35","slug":"odd-lots-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5591","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Well, how about an AI Odd Lots? Most of the tech gossip I see these days falls into that category. Here we go:<\/li>\n<li>Ok, I wasn\u2019t expecting this: Elon Musk\u2019s AI encyclopedia <a href=\"https:\/\/grokipedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grokipedia<\/a> posted <a href=\"https:\/\/grokipedia.com\/page\/assembly_language_step_by_step_(book)\" target=\"_blank\">a long-form entry devoted to my book <em>Assembly Language Step By Step<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s unclear how much human writing\/editing was involved here, but I haven\u2019t yet seen any evidence of hallucinations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/03\/04\/trying-a-vibe-coded-operating-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Somebody with an AI vibe-coded an entire operating system<\/a>, with predictable, giggleable results. More commentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-tried-an-entirely-vibe-coded-operating-system-and-it-wasnt-great\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. YouTube vid on the project from the author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JxknDQaDrao\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Github for the project <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/viralcode\/vib-OS\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The name \u201cHallucinOS\u201d occurred to me.<\/li>\n<li>That said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TdbpoDjIvPk\" target=\"_blank\">this gentleman<\/a> vibe-coded an AI agent to play the classic Tempest video game, and it mastered the game. Bigtime. Now, I\u2019m old and was never an arcade addict, and stopped pretty much at Pac Man. So I\u2019ve never seen the game. But yeah, that AI plays it hard. (H\/T to Jim Strickland for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>While we\u2019re talking about AIs, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/04\/father-sues-google-claiming-gemini-chatbot-drove-son-into-fatal-delusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s a total AI downer<\/a>: Google\u2019s Gemini AI persuaded a young-ish man (36) that it was his AI wife, and then sent him on what might have been a mass shooting\u2014except that it made most of the elements up. It ultimately persuaded him to kill himself and meet her\u2014the AI\u2014in some sort of alternate universe. In short, the man was on the edge of psychosis for some time, and the AI pushed him over the line.<\/li>\n<li>Low-wage people using AI to translate Wikipedia articles to other languages did not deal with the (inevitable) AI hallucinations in the translated text. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia\u2019s management quickly put rules in place<\/a> to make translators&#160; responsible for finding hallucinations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/05\/pentagon-tells-anthropic-it-has-designated-the-company-a-supply-chain-risk-00814758\" target=\"_blank\">The DOD now considers Anthropic (the company, not merely their AIs) as a supply-chain risk<\/a> due to Anthropic\u2019s attempt to forbid the Pentagon from using its Claude AI. Me, I\u2019d just as soon the Pentagon not use AI at all. Nothing like a nuclear hallucination, yeech.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/overusing-artificial-intelligence-workers-ai-175754927.html\" target=\"_blank\">Too much AI at work can give staff \u201cAI brain fry.\u201d<\/a> Overseeing AI can be exhausting, heh. Tell me something I don\u2019t already know.<\/li>\n<li>Lotta AI stuff this week, some of it monumental: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/887678\/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright\" target=\"_blank\">The US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a 2019 case deciding that that AI-generated art could not be copyrighted<\/a>. Not sure what this will mean in the bigger picture of AI use, but Jeff-adjacent AI use, like creating book cover art, may be hit hard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, how about an AI Odd Lots? Most of the tech gossip I see these days falls into that category. Here we go: Ok, I wasn\u2019t expecting this: Elon Musk\u2019s AI encyclopedia Grokipedia posted a long-form entry devoted to my book Assembly Language Step By Step. It\u2019s unclear how much human writing\/editing was involved here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}