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@jamesob My Linux desktop images ~2004 were all this style of art.

There was something much more humane and exciting about this vs. what we have now

@LukeFarritor @rakyll Emacs has had this for over 20 years.

@cdclemensen @MuseZack In case you were serious — ChatGPT would have no way of knowing if it wrote a given paper and the response will just be a guess.

@MuseZack I would think that the teachers can check that pretty easily though, just run it through ChatGPT and ask it if it had anything to do with writing it haha

Listening to college students talk to each other honestly about how many of their peers are using ChatGPT to do everything from write English papers to doing coding assignments and getting away with it is deeply alarming.

@patio11 Suno has surprising range if you prompt it well. Here’s a sea shanty that I’m pretty happy with: app.suno.ai/song/1bf2a656-…

It's not nearly as catchy as "Guys what is wrong with my cat?" but I thought the surprising demonstration of real-world utility (for a very esoteric and rapidly diminishing value of utility, to be fair) was worthy of being highlighted.

In "generative AI demonstrates surprising capabilities" can I give you the song "50 decimal places of pi" app.suno.ai/song/674e86cb-…

@MarmotRespecter @candybling222 Nah they were everywhere when I was growing up, really annoying. Lost a sweater to moths a few years ago in Seattle. They are seasonal, but just realized a couple days ago I hadn’t seen any for a few years in a row now.

@candybling222 that's my feeling--or maybe they were a really bad problem in the 1930s and my great grandparents just never updated their mental model lol

what happened to moths? growing up my great grandparents smelled like mothballs constantly, they were terrified of moth damage to their clothes you never smell mothballs anymore, yet moths eating your clothes is never a problem for anyone seems like moths lowkey fell off

@Merzmensch I appreciate your work. Looking forward to longer form video output when the technology gets there.

Probably, if I will leave some traces in the (art) history, I will be known as a random guy experimenting with stuff, without name, art school or movement. OK, did some exhibitions, but irrelevant, everybody did it in 2020ies. It isn't self-pity, it's realism. As self-marketer I am zero.

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@anecdotal This is a viewpoint that feels new but has been discussed for many years. I think it’s valid and would work, but not guaranteed 100% of the time. Much like real children. Unfortunately, that may be ultimately insufficient for human survival. It may also be the best we can do.

In short, maybe bring more moms into the AI/AGI omg conversation and see what happens?

At some point the gendered aspect of how the (overwhelmingly male) makers of AI are now expressing so much fear of AI needs to be discussed. Consider the cast of characters. The absence of women's voices of fear is striking @soundboy ft.com/content/03895d…

@Lan_Dao_ Terribly naive take. Alignment has nothing to do with making ChatGPT not use bad words and everything to do with not accidentally causing human extinction. Separate things.

@sbuss Unspooling scotch tape in a vacuum can be used as an X-ray source: technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217…

This is one of my favorite stories of spooky industrial activity: an "invisible electrostatic wall" formed by fast-moving polypropylene tape at a 3M factory. I wish someone would replicate it, but also this amount of charge could easily kill you! amasci.com/weird/unusual/…

@EMostaque Native resolution increased?

Something very special about these outputs. Who can spot what it is.

@myprasanna @Suhail @ilyasut I suspect it’s trainable, just an API many engineers aren’t familiar with.

@Suhail @ilyasut Ben Horowitz says sales people are just programmers for human emotion. Now notice how diff good developers look from good sales people.

Shouldn’t programmers be good at management? After all, it’s just distributed programming in natural language

@brunokim_mc @dystopiabreaker You misunderstand, there is no collage. It looked at the original works and learned concepts from them. The original work isn’t in the system at all.

@dystopiabreaker I say "pay" not to say it should always be monetary, but artists have the right to decide how their work will be used -- you know, copyright. If you adhere to the "shuffler" angle, at the least attribution should be provided for each source used for the collage.

it’s simple. DALL-E is a plagiarist because it learned from billions of pieces of existing artwork. unlike real artists, who are sealed inside a deep dark cave until they are 20, at which point they emerge to dispense their vision unto the world

@balajis Can confirm: my knowledge of art history, and general art vocabulary increased 10x in the past year due to the text-to-image models.

Art history: now an applied subject. "A portrait of a knight with plate mail armor and a longsword in the style of [Rembrandt, René Magritte, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso]."

@sbuss Yeah you may need to pull these re the no photoreal face rule

"I have no mouth and I must scream" #dalle2

@sbuss After you get some experience with this, I want to know if it affects aphantasia at all. Can you start to predict what the outputs might look like?

More DALL-E, this time Sailor Moon in synthwave, steampunk, by Johannes Vermeer, and by Banksy

@EMostaque I will occasionally look at a real thing and think to myself “the coherence and detail on that is amazing!”

Do AI art long enough and you’ll start dreaming in latent spaces. Then you’ll realise CLIP isn’t conditioning the images. It’s conditioning you. 😬

Some of February’s output

@DanxGogh Crank up those GPUs?

@sbuss My symptoms started mild (last year, pre-vaccine) but didn’t end that way.

Three family members in Chicago just caught covid. One unvaccinated & caught it for the second time but reports "mild" symptoms.