Everybody still talking about AI but it's the quantum computing breaking cryptography thing that is going to really fuck shit up good, that's going to happen within 2-6 years, you heard it here.
"Virtuosity annoys me, it confuses art with prowess."
- Édouard Levé
Sade is extraordinary.
Sweet FA, I got mansplained in 5 minutes. Check to see if anything interesting is happening once a month or less. Happy to see you though!!
Wow well I made a ton of mistakes and there's no edit button. Oh well. You get what I am trying to say, despite a quote that is pasted in wrong and a numbered list that goes nowhere. 🙃
“No, sweetheart,” I said, brushing a stray tear from her cheek. “Monster is never leaving. Not while I’m here.” She searched my face like she was checking for lies, then threw her thin arms around my neck so hard it almost hurt."
"But Monster isn't scary. He's the only person who doesn't look at us like we're already dead." I knelt down so I was eye-level with the little girl (her name tag read “Lily”). Her lip trembled, and the sight of those huge tears on such a tiny, brave face cracked something open inside me.
""Are you going to make Monster leave?" Her eyes filled with tears. "The last director tried to ban him because parents said he looked scary." My heart stopped. "What?" "She said his tattoos frightened people. That men who look like that shouldn't be around children." The girl started crying.
Tough looking guy on a tricycle in what appears to be a pediatric cancer ward.
likes, comments, and shares. And of course life imitates "art", so we find content creators on all kinds of social media also aping this kind of stuff. What an incredibly weird content ouroboros. "A little girl tugged my sleeve. She was maybe six, bald from chemo. Text excerpt:
cancer ward. I'll include the image and text sample below. The image is so obviously fake, and the story so full of details that are a bit off, it rings false right away. But it still "feels good", what a charming thought or idea. "Don't judge a book by its cover". These stories rake in thousands of
feel-good hook and it's never subtle. The war veteran with no money who finds purpose. The humans-having-touching-encounters-with-animals genre. The lonely or mentally ill person finding friendship. Always PG, always kind of pure. One of the latest was about a biker guy who entertains the kids in a
I'm getting a lot of obviously AI tearjerker, feel-good content on FB. I clicked "read more" on one, and now it's gumming up my feed forever. I don't often do anything anymore on Boomerbook but this phenom is fascinating for a few reasons: (1) what it thinks people want. There's always a deep
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
We perform for ourselves.
I would love to know more!
speak of that separately. But for now it feels like communication is a kind of ruin, we talk to everyone and no one. We try to reach each other but we don't care, it's just impressions and likes and views. We perform for the (rear-view) mirror.
What a strange idea. Just come and say something. "What's on your mind?" I think as Twitter used to say. It's random. People still want to squabble about stupid things with people they don't know. For some reason this has me thinking of the tearjerker AI stories that now clog Facebook. Maybe I will
(Takes a look around after a long absence) Right, so, looks like the same old thing: reply guys, people discussing v. serious shit, people being ridiculous and funny, people on their very niche subject. The occasional good meme. It's all mixed up like some kind of weird garbage plate.
Remember when Milli Vanilli happened and then it turned out they could sing ok and ppl were like “wut” and they were like “I dunno we feel bad” and now the whole government and all of commercial industry are unapologetic scams to get you to buy bets on, say, whether your neighbors will starve.
It became ridiculous and of course they had to add a "jump to recipe" button because it was ridiculous. Anyway, live by the tech, die by the tech
This is also a group of content creators who were very eager to game the algorithm when it suited -- e.g. making enormously long stories before recipes to keep people on the page longer and raise their search engine results.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I don't like it here and now everyone arrived and is leaving again because these things suck. I know Mastodon is a ghost town but that's because you tried it for 5 seconds and left. At least it isn't owned by the usual shitty people. I'm old and have been through too many of these things.
black text on white paper: HELLO I would like to talk to you / if you have the time / in a new sort of way / about a new sort of world
Stafford Beer writing what I sometimes mistake for Yoko Ono writing
I invite #educators to share this report on #ai #sweatshops with their students - so far from #meta and #openai in Silicon Valley. Exploited, screening extremely traumatizing content, with no support - and lawsuits over the consequences.
Otherwise all our enterprise is a creature of the fates and all our imagination and invention and care will not be enough to save us." Cormac McCarthy's inscription on The Passenger, given to Augusta Britt archive.vanityfair.com/article/2005...
"It’s my belief that the raw material of good art is human sorrow, and when that sorrow is another’s, one has the obligation to treat it with great care and dignity. But I also believe the one who is loved is placed under an obligation. To survive and bear these trials with grace and dignity.
The PANTONE colour of the year is Peach Fuzz and I hate it!
