why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good
You know, back when all that LLM stuff came out first I actually used it
I was reminded by the shortcut I remembered to delete a few days ago
I didn’t really use it after I discovered just how unethically the data was sourced but even then, before that I pretty quickly realised it was only good for making custom placeholder text that you had to extensively edit for it to be any good.
At that point you might as well write things yourself.
This is a bubble for sure
Now the question is how long will the VCs keep it from popping
My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, “Maybe I’ll proofread your paper for you in exchange,” meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, “Cool,” and gave him the file. And he said, “Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!” And I said, surprised, “What? Where?” Because I’m sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.
And then he pointed to the screen and said, “Look at all the blue and red lines you have.”
And I said, “Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I’m ignoring because the computer is wrong.” And then I paused and added, “You know you can’t proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?” And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, “It didn’t have a blue or red line.”
There’s a very good reason for that: THAT’S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN’T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.
I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.
I don’t want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It’s not just that I’m freaked out by people being like, “I use it to write novels!” (Although I don’t see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! “I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z.” But…why? Why not just…use your own brain…to…brain…storm? The computer doesn’t even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, “But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!” So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don’t belittle the wonder of thinking.
I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to “Wouldn’t it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?” Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I’m not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.
I love this phenomenon. I’m sure there’s a better terminology for it than my ramblings, but I see it everywhere, it goes beyond foreshadowing and into things like subtext, and I don’t think it’s necessarily accidental.
A very common example you see in online spaces are trans folks drawing themselves as the opposite sex long before the realize years after the fact that that might mean something.
Hayao Miyazaki has the most chaotic way of making films that I’ve ever seen. He has no idea how the story is going to end when production starts. In Spirited Away he described the flooding at the end as a fortunate accident. He wanted the train scene to be completely barren in contrast to all the previous visual noise, and was relieved when he realized he had foreshadowed it.
There’s a fun interview with spielburg about close encounters of the third kind where he’s confronted with the interpretation that the movie ends with music and computer science coming together which were the respective professions of his parents, so it was a scene about him reaching out to communicate with his parents, and he laughs because he didn’t realize that when he made it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton said “Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.” and I think that describes this perfectly. You know what a 4 act structure is in basic terms, and there’s nothing particularly superhuman about recreating that formula, but there’s this small but significant part of you that, unbeknownst to you, is intentionally calling shots and turning that work into something more than you intended.
You could call it accidental, but you did it. Another good quote from red letter media: “You may not have noticed, but your brain did.”
was at the local watering hole when the news broke and a random guy looking at his phone went “wow!” so i asked “trump?” and he said “no, new species of tiger beetle”
why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
You’ve never heard of The Bog?
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the what
EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”
“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”
happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders
I want any cranberry farmers reading this to know, really truly know, that “are you cool with spiders” is not a specific enough question for this situation.
why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
You’ve never heard of The Bog?
th
the what
EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”
“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”
happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders
I want any cranberry farmers reading this to know, really truly know, that “are you cool with spiders” is not a specific enough question for this situation.
only reason im telling you this is because on the wristband they gave me they had a pronouns section but instead of just putting down my pronouns there was a barcode you could scan
its just a very funny visual. probably real as fuck for some of you
[id: a tweet from dumpling queen @/ladydumplings that reads, “so zionists are covering up orange handprints, placed as memorials to victims and survivors of residential schools. because apparently, opposing any genocide is an attack on them.” attached is two photos of an orange hand print on a black background. over one photo is a blue sticker that reads, “our love is stronger than your hate” with a star of david over it. the other photo is an orange handprint, unvandalized.
a quote retweet by hannah ♿✨ @/genzalternative reads, “they saw hands with blood on them and immediately assumed it was [about] them.” /end id]
[id: a tweet from dumpling queen @/ladydumplings that reads, “so zionists are covering up orange handprints, placed as memorials to victims and survivors of residential schools. because apparently, opposing any genocide is an attack on them.” attached is two photos of an orange hand print on a black background. over one photo is a blue sticker that reads, “our love is stronger than your hate” with a star of david over it. the other photo is an orange handprint, unvandalized.
a quote retweet by hannah ♿✨ @/genzalternative reads, “they saw hands with blood on them and immediately assumed it was [about] them.” /end id]
i love telling people i accidentally made too much food and itd be a huge help if theyd take some off my hands because there’s simply no way i could eat this much. because i love lying.
me, throwing an extra cup of rice in the cooker: whoops…oh noooo…whatever shall i do….how can this keep happeninggg…better text my loved ones about this shameful display of hubris after i make all this onigiri…=)
me: hi friend i accidentally made too much onigiri do you want some for dinner?
friend: omg yes please!!
me: cool thanks i’ll see you downstairs :)
translator’s note: it was not, in fact, an accident. it did this on purpose. because it is evil.
i love telling people i accidentally made too much food and itd be a huge help if theyd take some off my hands because there’s simply no way i could eat this much. because i love lying.
me, throwing an extra cup of rice in the cooker: whoops…oh noooo…whatever shall i do….how can this keep happeninggg…better text my loved ones about this shameful display of hubris after i make all this onigiri…=)
me: hi friend i accidentally made too much onigiri do you want some for dinner?
friend: omg yes please!!
me: cool thanks i’ll see you downstairs :)
translator’s note: it was not, in fact, an accident. it did this on purpose. because it is evil.
NO DAD, air brushing unlicensed images of spongebob smoking weed on to t-shirts and selling them at a boardwalk was YOUR DREAM. i’m going to be a PROJECT MANAGER.
“I reported her because she was posting NSFW without mature labels which is against TOS!!!” you’d narc on someone for having their tits out at a gay bar because it’s illegal you simply are not trustworthy
Defending yourself by saying that censoring the sexuality of trans women is actually morally correct and justified. Actually just makes you look more like a bitch, believe it or not. Especially considering how often the “NSFW posts” in question often amounted to little more than armpit and forcefem jokes
“Is Communion Vegan?” - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
it’s fine bc it’s punching up
Hm, I’d go the other way, you can consume communion wafers on Fridays in lent, therefore the transubstantial body of Christ is theologically either grain or fish.
Iirc, theologically speaking, the body of Christ is gluten free. However, the miracle of transubstantiation means that the body of Christ gains the properties of a glutinous cracker.
Weird but technically correct argument for portraying Jesus as a white cracker.
Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet
sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix
Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh
Adapt. Survive.
this is the single most inspiring piece of information I have yet to come across in all my moments in this world
People are hesitant to believe you when you say that the most drama-filled community is like…the knitting and fibre arts communities.
Like, I am not someone who even knows how to knit, but these people are crossing more than stitches, they are getting in lifetime beefs, claiming to have invented basic patterns that have existed for 100s of years, having about 100 Fyre festivals per tax season, some extremely serious cultural appropriation issues, racism, threats, legal actions and multiple faked deaths.
These people are wild, I swear. They may all act like they are just in permanent grandma mode, yet what are knitting needles rather than ready-made shivs?
Fandoms come and go, but fibre arts are forever, and some of these people are clearly carrying the grudges of their ancestors. You don’t know the fable of power corruption until you see someone with 3k followers letting all that imagined fame go to their head and accuse some random store of stealing their design, I swear. This community is full of dropped stitches, and everybody snitches.
Idk how long this is going to be an issue. Maybe forever. But when you’re tagging people in Tumblr posts, you need to start tagging them in groups of five. After each group, press enter and tag the next group in a new block. If you do not do that, all of the tags after the first five will not work.
I learned this the hard way.
Your tags need to be organized like this.
@/tag1 @/tag2 @/tag3 @/tag4 @/tag5
@/tag6 @/tag7 @/tag8 @/tag9 @/tag10
@/tag11 @/tag12 @/tag13 @/tag14 @/tag15
And so on.
Hopefully this doesn’t last forever, but it’s definitely the way you have to do it for now.
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