BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 36.4% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 454 faulty-reasoning hits from 198 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.6% and a BS Rank of 85% (2,664 of 17,065 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.40% of the article peer group.
AI agents have made inroads in businesses and government.
Now they’re hitting the pageant stage.
Samantha Smitte, 37, who worked at IBM for a decade, spent about $150 on AI agents to train for the Miss New York USA pageant next week, she told Semafor.
They run practice interviews with her, suggest workout routines, keep her up on current events, and suggest dresses like those of past winners.
Her AI “poise and style” coach for her onstage posing practice didn’t give good advice, unfortunately, so Smitte went with a human for that.
Space for AI in the pageant world has been contested: As an April Fools’ joke this year, the Miss America organization posted that it would use AI with contestants on stage, asking them to solve real-world problems.
A pageant of competing AI-generated women, dubbed “Miss AI,” received mixed reviews, with some saying it celebrated diversity and others saying humans are losing touch with reality.
Smitte said she can be fully authentic while using AI and called it her “collaborator and thought partner,” but added, “I don’t think we’re ready to see the AI in front of the curtain yet.”
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