Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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NSFW, Sterling on the weird language of LLMs
https://bruces.medium.com/preliminary-notes-on-the-delvish-dialect-by-bruce-sterling-ce68a476247b
it looks like many of the LLM "delvisms", including the unusually high rank of the word "delve" itself, just boil down to... Nigerian English.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt
It's a good article, but the opening made me laugh a bit:
“Write in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson, composing a haiku about Dr Jekyll.”’
Certainly! Here’s a haiku inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s style, focusing on Dr. Jekyll:
Dual souls intertwined,
In shadows, Jekyll hides Hyde —
Light and dark collide.“How about a NASA engineer instead of Robert Louis Stevenson?”
Sure! Here’s a haiku about Dr. Jekyll, written in the style of a NASA engineer:
Human duality,
Jekyll’s experiment fails —
Chaos in the lab.How do Large Language Models manage such astounding stylistic feats?
Like, "astounding stylistic feats"? Um, is it just me or are those two haikus basically stylistically indistinguishable from each other and their main style would still be best described as "LLM-ese"?
(I guess the "engineer" one uses the word "lab", so that's not nothing, but that's mostly interesting to me as an example of the way LLMs have no concept of the difference between form/style and content.)