Today’s industry research reports are becoming more and more technologically advanced.Recently, there was a hot search in Shanxi Province, and the reason for it was inexplicable: withered skeletons.There is an industry report on the coal industry, the electronic version alone is priced at 8,200 yuan, China's lignite industry development trend analysis and investment prospect research report (2022-2029) released by Guanyan Report Network.
After spending money to purchase this report, it was clearly stated on the third page that coal is a renewable resource, and the regeneration method is to obtain 1 to 3 by killing withered skeletons.
This outrageous industry research report quickly became a hot search topic due to its outrageous description, and because Shanxi is a major coal-producing province in China, it was quickly ridiculed as a withered skeleton.
I don’t know who made these teasing pictures, but after seeing them, Shanxi people not only recognized them directly, but also made fun of people in other provinces who didn’t even know about this coal mining method.
Under the dual push, a bunch of memes were born, which eventually put Shanxi Province on the hot search list.
How come a coal industry research report with a price of more than 8,000 yuan suddenly and inexplicably says that you can get coal by killing withered skeletons?
Curious netizens dug deeper and finally found the original source.
It turns out that these descriptions of coal are directly copied from Baidu Encyclopedia's method of obtaining coal items in "Minecraft".
The most outrageous thing is that this consulting company not only failed to realize that it had copied wrongly, but also became addicted to copying.
The 2022 version only states that you can obtain 1 to 3 coals by killing withered skeletons, and this is hidden in the main text.
Although the price of the 2023 version has been reduced to 7,600 yuan, it not only put this paragraph in the catalog, but also added a new paragraph, saying that the main use of coal is to make torches, and some villagers can exchange 15 coals for 1 emerald.
Everyone was dumbfounded, because normal people would be dumbfounded after reading these contents, and it is even more outrageous when placed in such an expensive and seemingly very high-end industry research report.
How dare you sell such a so-called industry research report for money? How dare you sell it?What is the difference between 8,000 yuan a portion and fraud.
What’s even more outrageous is that netizens have uncovered many industry research reports of this type.
For example, a research report on the Hebei steel industry clearly states that a new intelligent steel-making technology invented by a steel research institute is stated. As long as the number of villagers in the factory reaches 16, the system will automatically generate iron golems. After defeating them, iron resources can be obtained, which can be refined into iron ingots in the furnace. This intelligent steel-making technology is expected to increase the daily output of the Hebei steel industry by 30%, significantly reduce labor costs, and is suitable for large-scale promotion.
Why are there such outrageous reports?
Some people say this is because the game data has polluted the corpus, causing the AI to mistakenly think it is real coal. Then these consulting companies use AI to write industry research reports, leading to this ridiculous mistake.
This statement is wrong and unfair.AI, although AI is still very artificially retarded, it will not make such mentally retarded mistakes. AI can clearly distinguish the difference between games and reality.
For example, the Withered Skull incident came out in early 2022. The report was released earlier than the GPT developed by the United States at the end of 2022, and far earlier than the DS developed by China at the end of 2024.
Therefore, artificial intelligence does not take the blame.
More powerful evidence is a pressure plate market research report published in 2020, which clearly states that the pressure plate can provide electricity when stepped on by the player, and will stop powering after leaving it. The stone pressure plate can be collected by a pickaxe.
In August 2013, a guest invited by a Chinese TV station for a military program said in a program broadcast to the whole country that our military's "690 tactical nuclear graphics card" can destroy an aircraft carrier battle group with one shot.
In this program back then, the guests felt that what they said was correct and did not feel that there was any problem with the speech script. The TV station did not feel that there was any problem after recording the program, so it was aired after careful review.
But the 690 tactical core graphics card actually refers to Nvidia's GTX 690 graphics card. Because of its extremely high power consumption and heat generation, it was nicknamed the "nuclear bomb" by netizens. In addition, the GTX 590 in 2011 had a capacitor explosion during testing, so some netizens spoofed and modified the "Aircraft Carrier Killer" entry on Baidu Encyclopedia and made up a seemingly super real "690 tactical core graphics card."
Then some people really thought that the tactical nuclear graphics card was an aircraft carrier killer, so they really used this to write a manuscript, and then took the manuscript to a TV show, and then it was broadcast on TV.
The same thing happens in many consulting companies.
According to netizens, in the research reports released by this kind of company, its business profit model has always been "currently compiled."
This means that the research reports they put out for sale are all empty shells, with only a title and table of contents, and then they are sold for money. A report is usually priced at about 4,000 to 20,000 yuan, waiting for others to buy it.
Before paying, you can only see the table of contents and not the content, but the chapter titles are very detailed and high-level, which will make you feel that you have obtained detailed data and industry insider information on many industries through this report.
Before paying, you can make any request to this company. No matter how outrageous the request is, Sales will agree. Its revised chapter title will make you more interested.
Before payment is made, this company will promise that if you are not satisfied after purchasing, it will make modifications according to your requirements until you are satisfied.
And wait for you to pay.
This company will immediately arrange for a few interns to use crawler software to crawl a bunch of junk documents online based on keywords, and then start to compile them on the fly. They will piece the information together, and then let regular employees take a look at it and review it, and deliver it to the customer within 2 days.
Why weren't the withered skeletons found?
Because if one more person reviews, the company's net profit will plummet by 90%, so there is no such thing as review. After the intern has finished writing, the regular employees can read it over. It is normal to accidentally miss the paragraph about the withered skeleton.
So artificial intelligence is not to blame for this, because there is only artificial intelligence in the whole thing, not intelligence.
This situation is common in industry research reports, feasibility study reports, project application reports, funding application reports, etc. A large number of small companies rely on copying and pasting to create a lot of misleading reports.
Don’t think that selling a report for 7,800, or even 20,000 or 30,000 is very expensive. In fact, their profit is not high, because most of the time, only one copy of this kind of report is sold. If someone buys it, it will be written immediately overnight. If no one buys it, there will always be only a title list, and it will be posted online for those willing to take the bait.
Of course, even if this is the case, the Wither Skeletons are not necessarily false, and may be true. After all, many Shanxi people across the Internet have come forward and categorically said that Shanxi indeed obtained coal by killing Wither Skeletons. Some people also categorically said that every Shanxi person must kill 10 Wither Skeletons when they reach adulthood to complete the coming-of-age ceremony.
Since so many people in Shanxi have said this, then this matter has a certain degree of credibility. Maybe the coal in Shanxi is really dug out in this way.
No wonder the working environment of miners is always said to be dangerous. Undead skeletons are randomly refreshed underground, which is naturally dangerous.
But the existence of the Withered Skeleton is not entirely a bad thing, because according to some Shanxi people, Shanxi Province has now developed a new type of Withered Skeleton Tower, and the research institute has completed the relevant design plan, which is expected to significantly increase Shanxi's coal production and reduce costs.
Someone from Shanxi also released internal materials that a local city is still preparing, which reads:
Comprehensively promote the standardized construction of the "Withered Skeleton Tower" and build a solid "hard support" for improving coal production capacity
Comrades:
Currently, the province's task of stabilizing and increasing coal production has entered a critical stage. In order to implement the spirit of the Provincial Party Committee’s instructions of “relying on technology for production capacity and seeking efficiency on innovation”, our city took the lead in piloting and promoting the “Automated Withered Skeleton Energy Conversion Tower” (hereinafter referred to as the “Skeleton Tower”), achieving a revolutionary breakthrough in withered skeleton killing efficiency through scientific planning, technological innovation and standardized management. The key tasks are now deployed as follows:
1. Anchor the goal and comprehensively promote the standardized construction of skull towers
1. Technical research
Relying on the Municipal Energy Research Institute, a "Skeleton Tower Technology Special Class" was established to focus on breaking through three core indicators:
Tower structure stability: ensure the height of the monster spawning layer is ≥ 42 meters, and the fault tolerance rate of the suffocating layer is increased to 99.9%;
Mining efficiency: Using an automated killing system, the production line is deployed to all withered skeleton refresh points to improve killing efficiency and coal transportation efficiency, reducing manual intervention. The daily production capacity of a single tower exceeds 2,000 tons of standard coal, and the number of labor costs is ≤10;
Security redundancy design: Fully install the Holy Light isolation module to eliminate the risk of Withering Storm leakage;
2. Standard specifications
The "Technical Specifications for the Construction and Operation of the Withered Skull Tower (Trial)" will be implemented from now on, clarifying the "three must" requirements:
The site selection must avoid villages, water sources and paleontological fossil reserves;
The tower body must adopt a corrosion-resistant obsidian frame structure;
The conveyor belt must be equipped with a soul sand deceleration device to prevent withered skeletons from escaping;
3.Production capacity index
Before the third quarter of 2026, the city will have built 10 first-level skeleton towers (capacity ≥ 2,000 tons/day) and 30 second-level skeleton towers (capacity ≥ 800 tons/day), and eliminated 40 backward killing fields.
2. Innovate mechanisms and build a full-chain management system
1. Policy incentives
For towers that adopt the "red stone linkage AI killing system", the Municipal Energy Bureau has set up a special subsidy, giving each tower a technical upgrade subsidy of 3 million yuan.
2. Efficiency improvement
Incorporate the Skeleton Tower production capacity into the KPI assessment of each mining area, promote the "team competition" model, encourage killing efficiency through "daily rankings, weekly reports", commend and reward mining areas that have overfulfilled their tasks, and strictly hold accountable those who do not work well.
3. Approval reform
Open the “green channel for skeleton tower construction” and implement the “three certificates jointly issued” mechanism:
Monster spawning license (Municipal Energy Bureau);
Undead Energy Environmental Assessment Book (Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau);
Automation equipment safety certification (Municipal Emergency Management Bureau);
The approval time limit is shortened to 7 working days.
3. Keep the bottom lineline, strengthenRisk prevention and control
1.Safe production
Strictly implement the "three checks and three stops" system: check energy fluctuations, check frame cracks, and check conveyor belt wear; if any abnormalities are found, immediately stop the machine, tower, and operation.
Each skeleton tower is equipped with a registered undead safety manager, and the certified employment rate is 100%.
Strictly implement the production safety responsibility system and equip necessary safety equipment (such as enchanted diamond armor, life potion, etc.) to ensure the safety of production personnel.
2. Ecological protection
Promote "green killing" technology, strengthen the recycling of skeleton skeleton dust and other waste, and require the PM2.5 concentration in the 50-meter area of the skeleton tower to be less than 35 μg/m³ to ensure that increased production does not increase pollution.
4. Party building leads the way and forges an iron army to overcome difficulties
1. Carry out the "Skeleton Tower Construction Pioneer" operation and form 20 party member commandos to protect key towers.
2. Establish the "Obsidian Craftsman Award" to commend technical pacesetters in the entire process of tower design, construction, operation and maintenance.
3. Hold a city-wide skeleton killing skills competition and award the team with the highest performance record the title of "Conqueror of Wither".
4. The Municipal Energy Bureau, Work Safety Supervision Bureau and other departments should set up a joint supervision group to regularly inspect the implementation of the work of killing dead skeletons in mining areas, and conduct interviews and report on mining areas with slow progress.
Comrades! The construction of the Withered Skull Tower is a major mission entrusted to our city by the Provincial Party Committee, and it is also a key move to break the bottleneck of increasing coal production. Let us, with the determination of "build a tower, protect a square of coal, and protect a piece of blue", strive to build a national skeleton energy conversion demonstration base and make greater contributions to ensuring the national energy supply!
Thank you all!
I don’t know whether this internal material is true or false, but I think it looks real, much more real than the coal industry research report worth more than 8,000 yuan.
If this is true, it is a great thing. The cost of coal mining will drop significantly in the future, which will bring strong impetus to our country's economy.
According to current public revelations from netizens, the intern who wrote this report did not pass the background check when he was hired, and the HR system showed that the first six digits of his ID number belonged to a revoked administrative division.
Someone else studied the PDF metadata of the report and found that the creator field was a string of Morse code, which after deciphering was: "THIS TIME IS REAL" (this time it is real).
Others say that when this report is reproduced on a GPU cluster, a strange stack overflow occurs in the CUDA kernel function, and the error message contains the rune sequence from the Cthulhu Mythos.
Others said that seven analysts who had publicly criticized the research report disappeared one after another. The last one suddenly stopped talking while chatting with relatives and friends. His eyeballs trembled rapidly and he spit out several glowing coal fragments. Then he mysteriously disappeared in full view of the public.
What everyone said was more conclusive than the tactical core graphics card of the year.
We all had an Internet carnival together, so in the end, Withered Skeletons and Shanxi Province were both trending searches.
Author: Yuanfang Qingmu (public ID: YFqingmu)