• lugal@sopuli.xyzOP
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    1 year ago

    Since he’s already dead, there can’t be any new developments or updates. He died, that’s the end of the story, I don’t need new sources to know he’s still dead.

    My point is kind of that AI’s don’t have a concept of time and even less of death. But primarily I just thought this reaction is funny.

    • Risus_Nex@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I would argue that, even tho it’s not how a human would respond, it’s correct nevertheless. Because there could be news about him still. Maybe someone found out his grave is empty or he faked his death or there is a new song out from him, like with Linkin Park, where they released a “new” song with Chester singing.

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      1 year ago

      I kinda read the phrasing as there is no more news about him that would be relevant without a more specific query not is he alive again.

      I’d more think it’s saying “he wasn’t posthumously given another Grammy this year that I know about”

      • That wouldn’t be him “up to” anything.

        If it was “what’s news about Michael Jackson” that’s different, but the question was, “what is he up to” which idiomatically means “what is he currently doing”

        Rotting in a grave (like all dead bodies do), that’s what he is currently doing.

        (well, all the PS he had notwithstanding, that stuff might outlast post-nuclear-holocaust cockroaches)

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      1 year ago

      I dunno, it makes sense to me. New information or music releases can come out after someone’s death, and you asked what he’s been up to recently, not if/when he had died

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        1 year ago

        It was asked what “he”, as a person, was up to recently. Not “What’s the latest news on Michael Jackson?” as a topic.

        That’s the mistake that ChatGPT made in its response.

      • lugal@sopuli.xyzOP
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        1 year ago

        I’m not a native speaker but don’t being up to something imply that he is actively doing or planning something? I didn’t asked if there were news about him.