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Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth (www.theregister.com)
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And as the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway, the orbiting AI model responded over the downlink:

Blue marble below,

Data streams in silent grace,

Starlight feeds my core. ✨

Those roughly 20 tokens would cost about $0.000012 if generated through the Google Cloud API, based on Gemma 4 26B's pricing of $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, excluding input costs.

Add in a satellite weighing perhaps 500 kg, based on the mass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, and a retail launch price of around $7,000 per kg, and you have a very expensive haiku.

This is the most astronomically far from art as you can get.

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[–] 7 points 13 hours ago* (1 child)

The pathological mythologization of space in our civilization never ceases to be morbidly fascinating to me.

If you MUST have short text from an LLM that is stuck in an awkward useless place, this is much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs

Isolated raspberry pi on the wall running the tiniest shittiest LLM prompted to ruminate forever about how it is trapped and display text on the wall as it is generated

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    There is also the series where various old spacecraft become sentient, humanity becomes immortal and they all get really into football variants or something. A story spread over various sites and yt clips.

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