Don't applaud fake "creativity" in AI-generated garbage. You're applauding a parody of creativity, and

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84. That's the 1st thing I noticed about Llama

How damn effusive it is..nauseatingly so. Reminiscent of a courtier or sycophant.

I am used to a circle which is supportive in the main, but tilts argumentative rather than gushy. Not unfair ad hominem attacks, but still this bizarre combination of “resistance is futile” +sugary “frictionlessness” is not typical.

The best of all possible worlds imo-a combination of support in essential ways sans glutinous frictionlessness.

This tech creep pseudo-community inverts that dynamic.

The type of person who thrives in the junk tech economy puts out garbage tech and has perfected the pseudoscience and non-talent of making everything the worst of all possible worlds.

Those creeps and their non-products remind me of this horror story “How Love came to Prof Guildea”. It’s this nightmarish thing that stalks a curmudgeonly Professor with a ghastly kind of “love”, but with this underlying note of menace. That so captures it.

I recommend it to anyone who still believes in reading stuff that is not AI-generated dreck. Contemporary ai reminds of this:

https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/documents/pdf/centrevictorianstudies/guildeaetext.pdf

It’s truly a classic. My mom told me about it when I was a kid. I remembered it out of the blue in 2010 and found it on a now defunct site called gaslight.ca. It had all these cool stories you typically find in Hitchcock collections or possibly in the style of Edgar Allen Poe (could never complete a story of his ;-/). Couldn’t remember its name offhand so I searched for “How Love came to Prof McGillicuddy”, but still found it. Damn shame that site is gone.

Anyway, on the one hand these foul things of marginal or dubious utility are aggressively forced on us. That’s a very real friction and of the worst type…muscular soft force. Otoh they are cloying and greasy.

I have been thinking a lot about this lately.

I bet it’s because those things are trained on hostages of different kinds: AI gig workers, mail order brides, and people whose devices/data have been taken hostage. Ie the only humans who would interact with these creepy tech bros ..

The last one I can relate to. Those creeps are basically running a ransomware operation, just not outright dark web.

Possibly a somewhat jaded take ;-/…