On top of the obvious—the witless pileup of abstractions in that sentence is characteristic of un-reprocessed AI slop.
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On top of the obvious—the witless pileup of abstractions in that sentence is characteristic of un-reprocessed AI slop.
What public interest is served by giving a White House source anonymity just to say that Nicki Minaj is lying?
If you’re tasked with writing text that nobody wants to actually *read*, by all means, use AI.
Like, I’d literally rather read the prompt he submitted to ChatGPT rather than the text the GPT spit out.
It just really bothers me, this proliferation of AI zombie text everywhere. I’d rather read and hear people’s actual words.
I agree that it’s his own sentiments run through AI.
It’s still AI-written; he prompted the AI to try to ape his manner of speaking, and perhaps he did some post-generation editing, but it’s still entirely obvious. Go to his profile and read some comments from 7 or 8 years ago. They are quite different in style.
Also, funnily enough, “This research took approximately one hour, the old-fashioned way—no AI.” sent my antenna up
There are rhetorical and even metrical patterns that AI favors. It favors them, of course, because they are statistically favored, and common, in human-produced writing. But humans don’t use them again and again like clockwork.
Phrases like “Faculty involvement is not symbolism. It is quality control,” the way the whole thing is structured with subheads and bullet-point lists, and a certain maundering, baggy quality. I’m not saying I have “proof.” The authors edited the AI output, but not enough to remove the stench.
I have a hard time reading the Free Press’s story because it was drafted with AI.
A couple of weeks ago, Yo-Yo Ma made a quick visit to Wichita and the Maven Gallery, and I got the chance to cover it for The SHOUT.
Would have been better if the reporter hadn’t used AI to draft it.
Kansas GOP today gave up on the idea of redistricting Sharice Davids out of her seat. She threatened to run for Senate, which severely diminished the GOP’s enthusiasm for the idea. kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansa...
@joshtpm.bsky.social Why aren’t Democrats pointing out that if Republicans don’t want to negotiate on the budget, they can eliminate the filibuster? That would seem to add clarity to the situation — and the filibuster will need to go anyway when it’s time for a bare majority of Dems to codify Roe.
Meanwhile, Meta’s social networks are glitchy nightmares, as anyone who has to deal with them for work can tell you.
Of course, the fact that this attack was illegal has its own consequences.
In Trump’s social media post, he seems to be at least suggesting that this was limited: U.S. goes in with the bombs, but now it’s out. All back to normal except now the nuke sites are destroyed. Is there any way that can be our reality? Or does this action commit the U.S. to future actions?
The phrasing “not only ___, it’s ___” is a favorite of ChatGPT. I’m seeing this formula crop up in online text and articles with astonishing frequency. Each time I see it now I’m annoyed by the suspicion that I’m reading cruft no one took the time to actually write.
Every time I hear the phrase “Liberation Day,” I think of the George Saunders short story where people are glued to a wall in a wealthy man’s home and forced to sing.
Thank you Anne! :)
My thoughts on Beethoven 9 and our current moment. I appreciate @awelsbacher.bsky.social’s working with me on this, and The SHOUT’s being receptive to it.
Several kids trying to log in to Roblox at my library today ran into this insane 15-step Captcha. I tried to be sympathetic, but honestly… it was pretty funny. youtu.be/Nji8PFRUcsM?...
I started watching “Prime Target,” the new spy show on Apple, with my parents. It’s silly fun. Dad fished out these prime number discovery patents that he wrote and had issued for a Wichita inventor.
The federal dollars that Kansas stood to lose functioned as a form of pressure on Brownback and the right in Kansas; without that I wonder whether we’d have a Kansas Arts Commission today at all.
Yeah… and the destruction to be wrought by whatever they’re going to do to the NEA and NEH is just getting started. It’s not just the direct money that might go away, it’s all the activity and matching funds from state, local and private partners.
And like you said, it’s all interlinked nationally. WNO served as a training ground, commissioned new works, created co-productions with other companies. Alan Held, who’s a WSU professor now, sang Wotan there! All kaput, most likely. Sigh…
This could send Washington National Opera under, and it’s not as though new, big-time opera companies are getting started nowadays. So the end (or radical diminution) of WNO would represent more or less permanent damage to the artform and the opera industry in the U.S.
