• swlabr@awful.systems
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    6 months ago

    When it comes to robocontent, I ironically react like a robot from westworld. I look at it, but it doesn’t look like anything to me. It has no meaning. It’s just noise, a page of static.

    I suspect robocontent fetishists look at all art as static. They don’t understand that there is intention behind art. They are fundamentally incompatible with human experience. They are disconnected and insensitive to the creative world, and that’s just sad.

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      6 months ago

      What’s truly sad about this is they don’t understand the power of bad art that still tries really hard.

      If they just tried and failed, what they came up with would have a hundred times more heart than what they generated.

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        6 months ago

        they don’t understand the power of bad art that still tries really hard.

        AI could never write “My Immortal”

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          6 months ago

          To be fair, thats a positive point for the LLMs that shows even at their worst most generic and soulless, they still write better slop than edgelord hyperobsessed children. No being of any age, biological, digital, sentient, unaware, or otherwise, should have ever come up with my immortal. Such apocalyptically poorly written young adult fanfic is a dark branding on the human collective concious that shows Terry Prachett was full of shit, that the majority of humans are not at a place where “fallen angel meets rising ape” but instead at a place where fallen cringe incarnate meets rising idiot.

          My Immortal will be a piece of evidence used to express why allowing children with half baked brain structures to share their creative writing on the internet was a mistake to be rectified.

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            6 months ago

            An LLM will write in the style of my immortal just fine if you ask it to.

            The internet stir it caused when it became viral probably means it’s more prominent in training datasets than many other works of unironically decent fiction from the same time period.

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              Writing “My Immortal” in 2006 when nothing quite like it had ever been written before, is a (possibly unintentional) stroke of genius. Writing “My Immortal” after it’s already been written is worthless.

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                6 months ago

                I’m reminded of my previous comment back on an unrelated subreddit talking about the Eye of Argon. Obviously that wasn’t as structural insane as My Immortal but I think the same principle holds to a degree:

                “With a decent editor and several further drafts it could have been a solid, fun, entirely forgettable Conan pastiche. Instead, it’s the Eye of Argon.”