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Adam Christopher comments on a story in Publishers Weekly.

Says the CEO of HarperCollins on AI:

"One idea is a “talking book,” where a book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an AI facsimile of its author."

Please, just make it stop, somebody.

Robert Evans adds,

there's a pretty good short story idea in some publisher offering an AI facsimile of Harlan Ellison that then tortures its readers to death

Kevin Kruse observes,

I guess this means that HarperCollins is getting out of the business of publishing actual books by actual people, because no one worth a damn is ever going to sign a contract to publish with an outfit with this much fucking contempt for its authors.

I ended up on Know Your Meme because folks are throwing around TPOT like we're all terminally online and all understand Twitter lingo.

For anyone else confused: that part of Twitter. It's techbro "phillosophists" like Peter Thiel.

A major train station in Vienna has just been defaced by "AI art".

Saw something about "sentiment analysis" in text. While writers have discussed "death of the author" and philosophers and linguists have discussed what it even means to derive meaning from text, these fucking AI dorks are looking at text in a vacuum and concluding "this text expresses anger".

print("I'm angry!")

the above python script is angry, look at my baby skynet

Someone made a... thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the "bots" are hilarious: "ennui" for low-effort posts; I don't think that word means what they think it means. "Legion" for automatic spam posts. Cause that's not a dogwhistle or anything.

Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:

https://xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m

This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.