this may be AI, but it's distressingly like real life. never mind the message, how did the performance go? a big part of why we're where we are today (see the debates)---are we being entertained? mr. Roso nails it again.
Chilling. Aren’t most depictions of futuristic dystopian societies some version of this sort of thing? It’s all go to work at some soul-crushing automated occupation, then come home and bliss out in a false simulated reality. Only in most futuristic depictions the Powers That Be have implemented this system simply to maintain order over unruly human impulses. But of course if/when it really happens it will be to further last-stage capitalism.
And I take personal offence at the idea of AI Jane Austen. That’s my definition of blasphemy.
Short, but sweet. I'm a fucking drummer/English teacher who likes to take pictures. I mean, I really don't give a shit if anyone likes or cares about what I do. But I'm not quite ready to be replaced; and really, I don't have a problem with drum machines or translation software, etc. I just like the human touch (people know what other people like, like a good DJ knows what will get them on the dance floor, ya know?).
And, more seriously, the day porn goes AI will be the day I stop wanking. I have spoken!
Magnificent. Can't wait for the Bukowski biopic (or did they already make that with Jeff Bridges?). I'm looking forward to A.I. Mark Zuckerberg and A.I. Elon Musk appearing in my Meta headset so I can tell them to go fuck themselves. Or will it be A.I. Me saying that? Is that the end game?
Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso
I picked up a Wallace Stegner book in a Little Free Library the other day, I liked Angle of Repose, so I guess I'll give this one a try too, anybody read Big Rock Candy Mountain?
P.S. Absolutely none of this activity will generate clicks or income for Mr. Zuckerberg.
Not sure I see the problem with people who have their heads up their ass spending all their time in their basements wearing goggles and talking to fictional characters. Better than having them out trail running, or any other number of annoying things they do outdoors, that’s for sure.
Someone on Bluesky the other day was yacketing about how they used AI for writing ideas and I was all like "there's a metric fuckton of RPG supplements and random generators out there that are just as good if not BETTER and DON'T require the power consumption of a small county to run!"
Which makes me not excited for the prospect of AI intrusion into roleplaying; they tried jumping on the NFT bandwagon, I'm sure someone will use ChatGPT to "write" a shitty D&D knockoff, and it will suck, and a bunch of dumbass techobros will try to play it just because IT'S THE FUTURE,MAN. 🤮
I hiked to the top of this butte to get enough bars (3) to respond to this post and say, I think AI is the embodiment of American pseudointellectualism - a crap load of data, true and false, slapped together with a syntax that reveals its programming’s lack of understanding of deep grammar. Roy’s version is much better than that and always will be.
Hear! Hear!
Chayefsky does Bukowski.
Nice! Worth seven bucks by itself.
this may be AI, but it's distressingly like real life. never mind the message, how did the performance go? a big part of why we're where we are today (see the debates)---are we being entertained? mr. Roso nails it again.
Yoicks! Bukowski!
Someone say Beckett?
https://youtu.be/SKx11LGIf8M
Never fails to amuse, starting just with concept before the video even starts.
Chilling. Aren’t most depictions of futuristic dystopian societies some version of this sort of thing? It’s all go to work at some soul-crushing automated occupation, then come home and bliss out in a false simulated reality. Only in most futuristic depictions the Powers That Be have implemented this system simply to maintain order over unruly human impulses. But of course if/when it really happens it will be to further last-stage capitalism.
And I take personal offence at the idea of AI Jane Austen. That’s my definition of blasphemy.
Short, but sweet. I'm a fucking drummer/English teacher who likes to take pictures. I mean, I really don't give a shit if anyone likes or cares about what I do. But I'm not quite ready to be replaced; and really, I don't have a problem with drum machines or translation software, etc. I just like the human touch (people know what other people like, like a good DJ knows what will get them on the dance floor, ya know?).
And, more seriously, the day porn goes AI will be the day I stop wanking. I have spoken!
Brilliant!
Magnificent. Can't wait for the Bukowski biopic (or did they already make that with Jeff Bridges?). I'm looking forward to A.I. Mark Zuckerberg and A.I. Elon Musk appearing in my Meta headset so I can tell them to go fuck themselves. Or will it be A.I. Me saying that? Is that the end game?
I picked up a Wallace Stegner book in a Little Free Library the other day, I liked Angle of Repose, so I guess I'll give this one a try too, anybody read Big Rock Candy Mountain?
P.S. Absolutely none of this activity will generate clicks or income for Mr. Zuckerberg.
Having to use dead authors because live ones will sue you for using their works without permission is (chef's kiss).
Not sure I see the problem with people who have their heads up their ass spending all their time in their basements wearing goggles and talking to fictional characters. Better than having them out trail running, or any other number of annoying things they do outdoors, that’s for sure.
BUK!!
"Ms. Austen was not actually talking to us".
Take those two writers and the editor out to the alley and uh.........harm them in some way.
Well, that was bleak.
Kinda like real life.
Someone on Bluesky the other day was yacketing about how they used AI for writing ideas and I was all like "there's a metric fuckton of RPG supplements and random generators out there that are just as good if not BETTER and DON'T require the power consumption of a small county to run!"
Which makes me not excited for the prospect of AI intrusion into roleplaying; they tried jumping on the NFT bandwagon, I'm sure someone will use ChatGPT to "write" a shitty D&D knockoff, and it will suck, and a bunch of dumbass techobros will try to play it just because IT'S THE FUTURE,MAN. 🤮
I hiked to the top of this butte to get enough bars (3) to respond to this post and say, I think AI is the embodiment of American pseudointellectualism - a crap load of data, true and false, slapped together with a syntax that reveals its programming’s lack of understanding of deep grammar. Roy’s version is much better than that and always will be.
That passed the time... it would have passed anyway.
But not so rabidly.