Speculation, Fact and Fiction

Elsewhere online in AI idiocy this morning. Someone posts a Latin text, asking politely for an expert translation.

First response is 'Here, I ran it through ChatGPT for you. No idea if this is accurate'.

Would we call that more or less than useless? Either way, headdesk.

But presumably that person genuinely thought doing this would be helpful. I find that very worrying.

Right, back to my own work which is and will remain uncontaminated by any so-called AI

Elsewhere online, a viewer commented to J Michael Straczynski thus:

"Rewatching B5 and as always appreciate the moles and fine hair fuzziness of the Centauri skull caps, especially on the fully bald female characters. The moles in particular lend such an air of realness."

His responses were:

In terms of the female bald Centauri, some of those were skull caps, and others weren't; we let it be known that we wanted to support women going through chemo or other treatments who had lost their hair by casting them here, money that could also help pay for medical bills.

And beauty was the benefit. In the outside world, they might feel awkward or different, but on set, with 10-15 other bald Centauri women in beautiful gowns and dresses, their characters were much admired and desired, and they weren't different any more.

and when he was congratulated:

No, I just approved it, it was the folks in casting and hair and makeup who had the idea.