youtube is so smart y'all i was just watching a video where the host said the phrase "i don't know if i subscribe to that" and when he said the word "subscribe" the subscribe button played a little animation
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no no you misheard. i said the FETAverse
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y'all have no idea how much your messages of support mean to me
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[gazing lecherously at a circus performer] i'd really like to get to know her. in the carnival sense.
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0 days since i saw a woman on my timeline :(
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imagine you're just chilling by the lake with your buddies, fishing and knocking back beers, and some two hundred foot asshole comes along and starts hopping up and down on the hydro dam
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i'd be SO mad if i were a beaver and someone removed my dam
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youtube is trying so hard to crash firefox esr and is succeeding often
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the point of poetry isn't to be "inspirational," not as a whole. certainly not chaucer or shakespeare or poe. "inspirational" is the purview of self-help books and quippy mugs and posters with pictures of sunsets and kittens. nor does anyone read poetry because, golly, they just really love a rigid AABB rhyme scheme.
poetry evokes, yes, poetry plays with language and forms, poetry says things without saying them, says things that can't be said in dry prose. poetry is both abstract and specific; what LLMs produce is doldrum and vague.
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i saw an interesting video the other day of some folks with actual background in poetry looking at the examples from that study, and the only way the ai was able to consistently fool them into thinking its output was human written was by plagiarizing passages from real poems verbatim 🤷♀️
anyway i'm harping on about that study in particular because i'm annoyed that it's being presented as good science when its methodology is so flawed: the criteria the authors asked participants to evaluate reflect, well... just a vapid perspective of art, to be frank. is it any wonder that ai excels in those conditions?
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the thing about nfts and ai is that they're not just curios, fun diversions that the true believers can engage in without bothering the rest of us: they are an attempt to replace art (not just art, but for the sake of continuity of argument i'm keeping the scope narrow) with a very particular simulacrum based on a crude and superficial understanding of what art is and what it's for. it only makes sense to even use the word "art" in reference to bored apes and ai poetry if your understanding of art begins and ends at the passive consumption of surface-level aesthetics.
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remember in the 2000s when you'd go looking for desktop backgrounds and it'd be all 3D renders and skulls and stock photos with the saturation slider cranked to like 80? that's what comes to mind for me when i hear that "AI" "poems" are rated as more "inspirational" than real poetry
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like the nfts were obvious garbage in part because the visual style—the actual artistic choices that were made in defining the parameters of bored apes or whatever—were nakedly repulsive. i look at something like the sample poems from that study that purports to show that AI is "better" than humans at writing poetry, and i'm just like... how do you not immediately recognize that there is nothing there
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idk maybe i'm just wrong and have just meticulously curated an environment where i'm never exposed to data that doesn't validate my biases. but like every single thing i've seen come out of ai falls somewhere on a sliding scale between "this could have been a normal ass google search" and "literally worse than nothing"
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nfts were fascinating because either you bought into the magical thinking that allowed artificial market dynamics to confer abstract value onto, you know, an ugly drawing of a monkey—or you pretty quickly realized that there was nothing there
every now and then someone gestures at a vague connection between nfts and ai, whether to argue for the existence of that connection or against it, but for my money i think there is a connection and this is at the heart of it: either you buy the movie logic that lets you make the logical leap from "information-shaped noise" to "intelligence," or you take stab at it and immediately write it off as a waste of your time
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damn remember nfts
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when you're eating peanuts and you get a rancid little bugger in the last handful
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what i appreciate about tom stanton is his attitude toward reliability. my man will short a coil across a power supply so it sparks violently several times a second and as long as it does the thing he's just like "yeah that's probably fine"
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i'm at transgender
i'm at long bacon
i'm at the combination transbian pizza hut
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