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Recursion into madness
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Re: Recursion into madness
#22that's why I argue the LLMs are just a bunch of glorified lossy compression engines ;)
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#23that's why I argue the LLMs are just a bunch of glorified lossy compression engines ;)
Be cautious of that claim. Lossy compression may exactly hold intelligence.
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#24i asked nano banana to imagine mrs regan from the source and final text:
initially https://share.gemini.google/eJ54qDXM1gzC
boldly and maximally improved tone, clarity and flow: https://share.gemini.google/RiqX4x6mLB82
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#25i asked nano banana to imagine mrs regan from the source and final text: initially https://share.gemini.google/eJ54qDXM1gzC boldly and maximally improved tone, clarity and flow: https://share.gemini.google/RiqX4x6mLB82
Those are both very 2020s versions of Mrs. Regan, I would be more interested in the 1930s version...
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#26that's why I argue the LLMs are just a bunch of glorified lossy compression engines ;)
In the case of the movie poster, it probably doesn't help that the image was apparently stored in a lossy format. So after a few iterations the LLM can't tell the JPEG artifacts from the relevant image details and starts adding wrinkles to the faces and texture to the clothes etc. until it all goes to hell...
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#27i asked nano banana to imagine mrs regan from the source and final text: initially https://share.gemini.google/eJ54qDXM1gzC boldly and maximally improved tone, clarity and flow: https://share.gemini.google/RiqX4x6mLB82
Those are both very 2020s versions of Mrs. Regan, I would be more interested in the 1930s version...
normal: https://share.gemini.google/DhWqDtE74ASX
boldly improved: https://share.gemini.google/cR72HXmY4UdH
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
No memory, but searching says it was Lewis Carroll in Photography Extraordinary, published in 1885: The Milk-and-Water School Alas! she would not hear my prayer! Yet it were rash to tear my hair; Disfigured, I should be less fair. She was unwise, I may say blind; Once she was lovingly inclined; Some circumstance has changed her mind. The Strong-Minded or Matter-of-Fact School Well! so my offer was no go! She might do…
Thanks! You're better at search than me. It was part of a story, described here (last 3 pages): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403044354_Photograp...
The actual story can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/further-nonsense-verse-and-prose...
Re: Recursion into madness
#29Related 2025 paper on how GenAI running in an unconstrained loop tends toward convergent collapse:
Re: Recursion into madness
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those are both very 2020s versions of Mrs. Regan, I would be more interested in the 1930s version...
normal: https://share.gemini.google/DhWqDtE74ASX boldly improved: https://share.gemini.google/cR72HXmY4UdH
Thanks, that's more like it! Even includes an Art Deco mirror...