Please stop to gtvn me ai - hilarious.
I do not want AI to "polish" me
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#42Digital culture was fake and performative and insincere enough before Turboclippy: fuck that with something sharp. It feels like the whole world is turning into an HR department premised on the ideological axiom that killing one man is a murder but killing a million is a statistic.
Well that's just corporatism taken to the extreme which everything is.
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#43My mother is a first-generation immigrant. Her writing isn’t ideal, but AI allows her to communicate articulately in a way, where before she might have been discriminated against
That's one of my favorite optimistic applications of AI-assisted writing.
Our society is very openly discriminatory against people who aren't able to produce written communication that fits a huge number of unwritten rules.
LLMs know those rules. Helping people with ESL better interact with a world that requires them is a huge win in my book.
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#44There is no way in hell anyone who knows me would get that email and not think I’d been abducted This person cares about not putting up a fake identity. That's pretty cool, but social media has exposed that a large number of people are perfectly fine presenting an illusion. People will have no shame passing off well written things as an output of their talent and hard work. Digital makeup has no bounds.
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My work is running a business where I sell my time and skills.
If I don’t bring my identity, I don’t make sales. My business is an extension of who I am (and my decades of experience).
My identity helps customers understand that. It’s part of a brand story.
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#45Good news is that AI is equally adept at turning long polite business speak emails into short, blunt, and sweary emails, so you can choose what you prefer.
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#46Forget Newspeak, we’ll just have get everyone on VR and polish their language until it’s identically upbeat no matter the situation.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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You have to look at it holistically. This is the current modern Human: 1. Born into the beast, enters social media by 5-7 years old 2. All math and writing is done for you (becoming illiterate) 3. You don't have to spell ever again (becoming illiterate) 4. You cultivate a virtual persona since childhood (becoming vain) 5. Did your life really happen if it wasn't posted online (the digital existentialist crisis -- do…
The old human:
1. Born into plague 2. Never learns maths or writing 3. Nor spelling 4. Half the time your life ends before childhood does 5. Nothing happens in your life
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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You have to look at it holistically. This is the current modern Human: 1. Born into the beast, enters social media by 5-7 years old 2. All math and writing is done for you (becoming illiterate) 3. You don't have to spell ever again (becoming illiterate) 4. You cultivate a virtual persona since childhood (becoming vain) 5. Did your life really happen if it wasn't posted online (the digital existentialist crisis -- do…
> swipe left and right to find your soul mate ...
> Women only like 4% of the men they see on the app.
> Men like more than 60% of the women they see on the app.
this ends with 20 women with the same soul mate and 19 men without any. you need to add
> no kids, no grandkids
to your litany.
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#49The obsessive need for AI developers to make everything into the most banal, inoffensive version of said thing will probably end up being the biggest roadblock for AI taking over human jobs.
You phrase it well. It's not the AI themselves. You can as easily get an AI to take something fundamentally banal and write it into something exciting, dynamic, exotic, or strange. If you analyze these systems as a work of art, using the postmodern toolset, the people and systems taking one of the most potent technologies humanity has ever created and using it to craft a banality machine is just... very revealing. Li…
> postmodern
It is, isn't it. It's the Sokal Hoax on a society-wide automated scale: rather than being concerned with what a "text" might "mean", generate millions upon millions of "text" sequences and mechanically separate those which pass as real enough. Baudrillard's simulacrum.
> It's art. It's probably not art they intended to make, but it's art.
People seem to be very insistent that the output of AI is not capital-A art, because that threatens their worldview, ignoring how artists had previously pushed to expand "art" away from any concerns of technique, intent, legibility etc.
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#50You have an individual and unique way of speaking and writing? We're going to have to polish that out with the slop machine, citizen.
I wouldn't say the author's style is unique or individual in any way. Every single tumblr blog sounds like that. You could easily create a "make edgy" function that would feed your formal writings and turn them into that kind of prose. Is it better or worth than "polish"? There's no substantial difference. The "polish" version sure sounds less exhausting than the original.