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HAHAHA
I had to leave my office because I burst in uncontrollable laughter.
It's good to see that someone so smart also has a great sense of humor.
I can't decide if this is AI imagery or not and I hate this world. The absolute amateur hour choices going on in the lettering is tipping me towards AI, this is lettering by someone who thinks they know what "a comic" looks like and used "comic book" fonts but has zero idea of how word balloons actually work. Piss-poor internal margins, balloon tails that point nowhere near their supposed speaker, balloons that are w…
It very obviously is AI imagery
(Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)
I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included: > Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for seven years. > Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes. > No university, no lab, no funding. He pulled down the dataset, wrote his own code from…
Maybe it's me not being a native speaker, but that seems okish?
You can get away with it once or twice as a kind of rhetorical flourish but if you keep doing it, it starts to sound like a one-trick pony (or a clanker.)
(IMHO, obvs., I'm not the King of English.)
[0] e.g. "Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes."
I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included: > Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for seven years. > Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes. > No university, no lab, no funding. He pulled down the dataset, wrote his own code from…
It switches my brain into skimming mode very quickly, as it reads quite padded.
I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included: > Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for seven years. > Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes. > No university, no lab, no funding. He pulled down the dataset, wrote his own code from…
I just read a pre-LLM thriller written almost exactly like this. This is dialed up to eleven, but this is a fairly common writing style. It switches my brain into skimming mode very quickly, as it reads quite padded.
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It very obviously is AI imagery
I guess I'm doing a good job of pruning my inputs, the vast majority of the imagery I see online is from human artists whose work looks largely the same as it did before all these slop machines got popular, so I don't have as finely tuned a slop detector as you must. (Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)
- strawberry sundaes instead of glasses of water on the dinner table
- exaggerated expressions of surprise
- the fighter cockpit doesn't have a canopy
- the las vegas cocktail party watching the nuke just down the road
Maybe they're not AI, but they've got some weird details that made me decide in my own mind that they ARE AI
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I guess I'm doing a good job of pruning my inputs, the vast majority of the imagery I see online is from human artists whose work looks largely the same as it did before all these slop machines got popular, so I don't have as finely tuned a slop detector as you must. (Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)
some of the details made me think it's AI generated: - strawberry sundaes instead of glasses of water on the dinner table - exaggerated expressions of surprise - the fighter cockpit doesn't have a canopy - the las vegas cocktail party watching the nuke just down the road Maybe they're not AI, but they've got some weird details that made me decide in my own mind that they ARE AI
I hate this fucking future.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess I'm doing a good job of pruning my inputs, the vast majority of the imagery I see online is from human artists whose work looks largely the same as it did before all these slop machines got popular, so I don't have as finely tuned a slop detector as you must. (Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)
some of the details made me think it's AI generated: - strawberry sundaes instead of glasses of water on the dinner table - exaggerated expressions of surprise - the fighter cockpit doesn't have a canopy - the las vegas cocktail party watching the nuke just down the road Maybe they're not AI, but they've got some weird details that made me decide in my own mind that they ARE AI
I noticed that the astrophysicist has a microscope on her laboratory counter. I doubt she gets the opportunity to use it much in her line of work.