Absolutely, every single one of these tools has got less interesting as they refine it so it can only output the platonic ideal of kitsch.

I kinda want to keep my job and ideally get a good bonus.

fuck you

That ChatGPT can be more useful than a web search is really more indicative of how bad the web has got, and can only get worse as fake text invades it. It’s not actually better than a functional search engine and a functional web, but the companies making these things have no interest in the web being usable. Pretty depressing.

To be honest, as someone who’s very interested in computer generated text and poetry and the like, I find generic LLMs far less interesting than more traditional markov chains because they’re too good at reproducing clichés at the exclusion of anything surprising or whimsical. So I don’t think they’re very good for the unfactual either. Probably a homegrown neural network would have better results.

I got stuck on the same sentence. What the hell was that?

I’m going to assume he thinks “person” and “thing” are synonyms.

Yeah, it’s always a combination of factors and I have no doubt the stress didn’t help, but the idea that OpenAI would put a hit on some guy no one’s heard of over his opinions on copyright infringement is laughable. Let’s not do that.

carbon capture you can eat

Humans can’t help but return to questions the presocratics already struggled with. Makes me happy.

Tangentially, I know about nothing of quantum mechanics but lately I’ve been very annoyed alone in my head at (the popular perception of?) many-world theory in general. From what I’m understanding about it, there are two possibilities: either it’s pure metaphysics, in which case who cares? or it’s a truism, i.e. if we model things that way that makes it so we can talk about reality in this way. This… might be true of all quantum interpretations, but many-world annoys me more because it’s such a literal vision trying to be cool.

I don’t know, tell me if I’m off the mark!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grosse_commission

Ah man, if there’s one thing autistic kids love, it’s the sudden and arbitrary removal of an object they depend on!

yupppppp

Yeah I really really hate the fanfic manifesto and people getting deep feels about it. Such a neat little narrative that conveniently references every authentic detail people have already dug up. It’s in such bad taste ugh.

this whole exchange is so beautiful i love these stupid fucking idiots WHY ARE THEY EVERYWHERE

How do you tell? Well when you’re reading something that’s pretending to be text and you come across, say

We wander through the fields of green,
And breathe the fresh air that's so serene

the body has a natural wincing reaction.

Oh thank you so much for writing this, and for linking Ernest Davis’s paper. I saw a few of those headlines and I was mortified, as someone who is more annoyed than is healthy with GPT’s futile and incredibly easy to recognise attempts at producing the illusion of poetry.

Looking at the collection of poems is just maddening. There is no way the difference isn’t obvious to anyone who’s ever willingly read a poem, and the authors of the paper must know it. Disgusting.

Man that page has got some really wild sentences.

Park’s claims that human corpses commonly float down North Korean rivers were criticized by Swiss businessman Felix Abt, who lived and worked in the DPRK for seven years.

Now I don’t know if there’s any validity to her claim, but love the expert testimony from Swiss entrepreneur who’s been allowed to tour Pyongyang for a bit.

ugh truly aella_girl is the worst_girl

ehh i don’t know, as a child i’d occasionally get a vhs with weird cheap counterfeit cartoons on it and they just creeped me out. children can actually tell imo.

great news for lawyers hopefully