@TwoClownsEating Ahh yes, that must be those LLM* hallucinations I've been hearing about.

(*Large Lunch Mistake)

@skinnylatte I think there was a Mad Magazine parody of All in the Family where the parody-Archie-Bunker said "why don't all those bigots go back to bigotland where they came from".

I think of that often.

@nixCraft Well, that would explain why my servers are so bogged down lately.

@somecat In soviet Amerika, godot waits for you. [nods]

@majesty We are of course still a few years and trillions of investment dollars short of AGT (Artificial General Torment), which obviously means we need to invest harder and intrude more suffering into your daily Nexus workflows.

@TwoClownsEating

....did it work?

(I mean, technically, I think you want to use Bluetooth when there's food involved...)

@skinnylatte I think went on one of those tours in 1980! ...but I was only 15 and don't remember much about it, except wondering if the gardens were still floating or if they'd become stuck in the mud or something because they didn't seem to move much. Or something. :blobcatthinking:

@lumi @b0rk @spockrocket
The profit motive is the problem underlying the relentless pushing of LLM, MT, and other "meh, good enough to be plausible" policies. It's that motive's gradual takeover of all decisionmaking that we ultimately need to be fighting.[/opinion]

@artemis My prime theory in recent years is that many people pay far more attention to group-signalling (and artificial consequences) than to natural consequences.

...and I guess I've mentioned that before?... but it seems relevant here: if you always think in terms of "what will [people in my in-group] think", it will take quite a lot of actual-harm to override the social approval.

Hey @tips -- how do I find stored cookies in v8? It's not where it used to be, and searching for "cookies" finds many things of which none seem to be regular stored cookies.

Thanks!

Cicadas scream because they know

@arichtman @uep @ajft @bastardsheep

They're not very common because of overharvesting by the thneed industry.

Why have I never seen this image pop up on fedi.

(CW: large kitty-eyes)

This seems kind of good: https://www.artistcorporations.com

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paultk/116688278793224139

I will totally be using this.

(...if only because nobody at Hypertwin Manor can use the phrase "get this straight" without it invoking immediate commentary about how there isn't anyone straight in the house, so how can we possibly and also why would we want to.)

@gildilinie @brooke

😲 My code now runs without any errors! (...or any output! EFFICIENCY! weve all been played for absolute fools etc.)

@devopscats ...or my laptop (see addendum)

@devopscats That's absolutely refusing to play, for me. Is it working for you?

(Added) I was able to download it, fwiw, and play it from there. It may just be my laptop being weird :blobcatupsidedown:

@brooke @gildilinie

These modern kids with their fancy curly-bracket-utopia languages think they're all that and a bag of 64-kbit RAM chips, but I have one question:

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FIT THIS CODE ONTO PUNCHED CARDS?

(Checkmate, athiests.)

@artemis I can't speak to how other people use it, but here's how I have considered using it:

• I have a song-parody that could use a cover-image; I have an idea for what would make a good cover-image but not the time or skill to draw it. (Actually did this one; the rest are hypothetical.)
• I have an idea for a comic series, but not the time to draw it. I've considered the idea of storyboarding it, then having GenAI actually draw the frames
• I have an idea for a song, but lack certain instruments (and wouldn't have the resources in time or space to get a good recording even if I did), so I describe the rhythm and chords and have the AI generate a backing track for me, then overdub my parts.

In all cases, I would post an open offer to replace the AI-made material with human-generated material by anyone willing (and sufficiently skilled/talented) to do it at a price I can afford.

Oh, one more I've actually done (although I'm not sure this really counts as "generative", but it's still within the realm of "using 'AI' for creative purposes"):

• I have a live recording of a pretty good performance (in which I participated) of original music, made with a single cheap cassette deck (in stereo 🎧, mind you!). The main problem with it is that the vocals are kinda buried. I used an AI "stem separator" to pull out the vocals from the rest of the music, then used standard audio-production techniques to bring them out a bit in the final mix. (I don't think there's any non-"AI" way of doing this, FWIW.)

(Additional disclaimer: I have never given money to an AI company; I have only ever used their free services.)