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The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by OmnipotentVoid »

vunderba wrote: post #5

Slightly tangential, but this is the reason I'm baffled why people think that AI-driven podcasts would ever be worth listening to. If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy as something like Good Job Brain, Radio Lab, or Ask Me Another, then I'll eat my hat. I don't even own one. I'll drive to the nearest hat store, purchase the tallest stovetop hat that I can afford a…

I totally agree - LLMs may be great for spitting out content, but they just can’t quite replicate the energy, personality, and creativity of an actual podcast. The human touch is the irreplaceable component.

It doesn't quite stop at podcast hosts either. The simple fact that LLMs will never truly be capable of replacing software developers was one of the core principles behind our team developing The Ac28R - A completely new type of AI capable of bulletproof industrial software. It won’t host a podcast anytime soon, but if you need flawless code for complex projects, it's got you covered!

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Post by bpm140 »

tomcam wrote: post #3

Incredibly, no videos linked in an article about a video newscast. I think this is an example. The AI doesn't even pronounce "AI" correctly. Interestingly, it looks slightly offscreen just the way real newsreaders do when they're on prompter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7Q2S7VWUk They do a lot right. There's interaction between the bots. They look kind of professional but not Los Angeles/New York quality, which…

NGL, the pronunciation of Waikiki as “Why, Kiki?” made me laugh out loud.

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Post by sourcepluck »

NemoNobody wrote: post #292
sourcepluck wrote: post #40

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Go back to the 1990s (even probably the 2000s?) and ask literally anyone what they think of the idea of people spending huge quantities of their time on this mortal plane watching videos of other people talking about how they do their make up and pick their outfits. Are those videos "worth watching"? Are videos of people playing video games "worth watching"? Are videos of people opening products and saying out loud t…

Ahh, you e touched on a big problem with our society rn - nothing is worth doing. I've been really thinking about lawns lately and how much time men and women spend maintaining them, how much pride many of them have in such activity... lawns aren't real tho, it's just a personal park nobody ever uses that we all thought we wanted bc rich ppl had them. Front lawns especially, just for looks, nobody normal ever sits on…

I've had very similar thoughts about lawn-cutting, but hadn't related it to technology-related trends!

I couldn't agree more. In a broad sense, it's like we've lost contact with our own lives, communities, and cultures. I don't think those things are "dead", but they mean things now which are totally different than what they meant even only a couple of decades ago, and the people living through it sort of know that and kind of say it out loud sometimes even, but can't really wrap their heads around it at the same time and continue to ape the old behaviours (no offence, anyone, I do it too).

"Traditions" live on in a sort of zombie state... we cut the grass, we present the gift cards. It's an odd and fun(ny) moment to be alive.

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Post by hnthrowaway6543 »

lmm wrote: post #351
hnthrowaway6543 wrote: post #208

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Do you think the people who make TikTok or Clash of Clans (or, hell, the Daily Mail) use their own products?

uh yes? Was this supposed to be some clever "gotcha!" that ended up being really stupid? Might want to run your clever comments by ChatGPT before you post next time chief

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Post by xhkkffbf »

simplyluke wrote: post #108
mjr00 wrote: post #20

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The younger generation loves short-form, to-the-point stuff. Which is the exact opposite of what the current crop of GenAI makes. In a tiktok video, every sentence, every word counts because there's a time limit. If people don't engage with your content in the first 3 seconds, it's worthless. The video linked in another post starts off with 15 seconds of complete fluff. You'd have better engagement if you have a guy…

What's funny is every GenAI "incredible email/essay" would be better communicated with the prompt used to generate it.

They say that AI is just a great compression function.

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Post by StefanBatory »

fny wrote: post #7

Give it time y'all. This is the first inning, and I'm already terrified. I encourage you to have a conversation with ChatGPT's advanced audio for a taste of what's to come. If you can, have someone talk to it in a relatively unpopular language like Afrikaans or even Icelandic--they will shit their pants.

I tried Claude to translate basic text to Finnish for me and it was utterly horrible.

And by basic I mean grammar structure that was taught in like first chapters of a textbook.

Is ChatGPT any better at it? My take is that there simply aren't enough training materials.

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Post by SoftTalker »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #337
SoftTalker wrote: post #325

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I’d prefer to receive no thank you than to receive an AI written one. One says you don’t care, the other says you don’t care but also want to deceive me.

There's the third case: they care. In which you wouldn't be able to tell whether the card is "genuine" or AI written; the two things aren't even meaningfully different in this scenario.

You can tell if the thank-you card is hand-written. Most people don't have a pen plotter connected to their AI text generator to write thank-you notes.

Emailed or texted "thank you" notes don't count. At all.

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Post by unethical_ban »

hnthrowaway6543 wrote: post #208
segasaturn wrote: post #161

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Billions of dollars and all of Silicon Valley's focus has been spent over the last 2 years trying to get AI to work, the "AAA professionals" are already working on AI and I still have yet to see an AI generated product that's interesting or compelling.

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Your argument is weak.

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Post by hnthrowaway6543 »

unethical_ban wrote: post #379
hnthrowaway6543 wrote: post #208

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Your argument is weak.

the fact that you're engaging w/ a random human on the internet proves that my argument is strong

if you don't like it, go talk to Claude about it

Claude will even use proper punctuation & grammar which i'm not doing. it's LITERALLY an objective improvement over this comment. why the hell are you engaging with this crap?

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