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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #25

Apple should take a page from Hollywood and create an Apple Cinematic Universe where there is continuity on the various storylines and characters created in their presentations.

They do that for certain things, such as when they come up with marketing names for their OSes.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #14

I didn't know "chillax" was a word, especially one that would auto correct "chill". So from the authors comments, I take it I am a rare minority in that all my texts are in full, grammatically correct sentences, with proper punctuation?

studies show that kids these days interpret texts ending in a period as passive aggressive or something

And the plain smile emoji is either a normal amount of happiness, or a malicious serial killer dead-eyes rictus.

:)

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to younger readers as a sort of passive aggressiveness or shortness of patience.

and just when you think you've solved the ellipses and fullstop, someone comes along and hits you with the: ..

Aerodynamic semicolon.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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As a rule of thumb, the apparent politeness of the language is inversely proportional to the potential violence of the culture it comes from.

Case in point: countries with high levels of gun violence. You never know when an unhinged person might unload into you.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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As a rule of thumb, the apparent politeness of the language is inversely proportional to the potential violence of the culture it comes from.

Can you give some examples, because I’m not sure that’s true. Modern Japan is famously polite and their crime rates are quite low. Likewise, I grew up in a Quaker community that is exceptionally polite and nonviolent.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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As a rule of thumb, the apparent politeness of the language is inversely proportional to the potential violence of the culture it comes from.

Can you give some examples, because I’m not sure that’s true. Modern Japan is famously polite and their crime rates are quite low. Likewise, I grew up in a Quaker community that is exceptionally polite and nonviolent.

Japan may not be the best example. Their history of politeness extends from the extreme violence of the samurai era.

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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As a rule of thumb, the apparent politeness of the language is inversely proportional to the potential violence of the culture it comes from.

Case in point: countries with high levels of gun violence. You never know when an unhinged person might unload into you.

Not really a concrete case but an abstract and plausible-sounding hypothetical

Re: A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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post #82

The article's funny, and kind of surreal read considering a dimension fading away while all the characters become cartoons and the landscape becomes vague. Have similar thoughts occasionally. However, also creepy. Not sure if its the way humans have always written, that ChatAI got too good too fast, or that they all secretly had them all for years (Multiple massive AI releases in a year???, "had em all in a box in th…

I highly doubt that they were using Stable Diffusion to generate marketing images in 2013.
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