Justin Lee Anderson

Wow!

Thanks!

No.

I know. That’s tangentially what I was taking it for.

Oh man, that’s the thing right? I’m so happy I discovered this, but if I had known this two years ago…?

🤔

Words? Nice.

That seems to be an American brand of it, yeah. That’s not the one I was on. I’m in Scotland.

God, good luck to both of you.

We appear to be perilously close to “on the nose” of The Emperor’s New Clothes.

Ugh!

Lansoprazole, and of course.

What a nightmare! I’m glad they figured it out.

So I recently discovered that meds I was on were giving me awful side effects. Just four days off them and my headaches and fatigue are massively improved. I’ve been on them for two years.

In related news, I wrote 900 words today.

Glasgow - latest. Building near Central Station very on fire.

Really there are only two kinds of nostalgia.

Personal: "things were better when I was younger, healthier, less aware of the world, and with fewer responsibilities"

Impersonal: "things were better in this past I read about in a storybook"

Do this. Reviewing made me the barely employable, insufferable know-a-bit that I have become today.

Seriously. It's fun.

Thanks!

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Thanks, Nick! :)

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Right, I have actually booked my flights and hotel for my first ever @easterconuk.bsky.social!

Who else is going?

“Furthermore…”

Ayyyyyyyyy, don’t be so hard on yourself.

Not-here.

Things I’ve clocked as signs of AI writing:

“This isn’t just xxxx, this is (massive overblown hyperbole).”

All the hyphens. Where they have no-right being.

Use of elaborately inappropriate words (“cadence” instead of “schedule”, for example.)

It’s just pish.

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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

I meant in a ‘creative’ aspect. I am, for example, all for AI being used as a tool to help with medical diagnoses. I understand it is very good at catching early signs of breast cancer. I am not anti-AI in all its forms. To borrow a phrase, I want it to do the dishes while we make art.

Art is about humans sharing experiences. It’s a conversation between souls. The minute software enters that equation, it’s no longer art, it’s just commerce. I’m not interested in what software thinks the best next words might be. I want to know what an author has lived.

That “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.