Comments on: AI is now remorselessly generating tragedy

By: Albion

Albion — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:59:15 +0000

One of the good things about the proliferation of AI generated material is that it is becoming easier to discern it and reject it. I began using one or two AI ‘engines’ (in reality things that can be culled from the vast swathes on stuff already created and freely available on the web) to explore some possibilities, but very quickly I saw it was pretty much all the same.

Ask ChatGPT (which seems impressive at first) for a specific passage and it always follows the same, flowery language approach, and reaches predictable conclusions. Its ‘psuedo-ness’ swiftly becomes apparent once you have seen what it can do.

Gradually then although it has a rapid growth factor for now, discerning people will soon be separating it from what they really want from life, be it a book, a movie or any human interaction.

Again, the old maxim of choosing people, choosing life will win through for those who are aware.

By: Wanweilin

Wanweilin — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:13:53 +0000

VXXC, I recall mom putting us out the backdoor and locking it saying,”Go play!” In the 60s. Good times in the woods, creek and bike.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:35:20 +0000

The degree to which Frank Herbert’s Dune series has proven successfully predictive is flooring.

Between the Butlerian Jihad and the Golden Path he seems to have sussed out real human responses to social and technological realities with startling clarity. Luddites and Fundamentalists may not rule the modern world, but it becomes increasingly apparent that they will certainly survive it.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:43:51 +0000

GOOD.

Now touch grass, take the kids’ electronic babysitter-pacifier-substitute parent away. Take away the Toy of Idiocy and Evil.

Tell them to go play outside, especially boys. And if they want to read, read A BOOK.