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In other news, Jazza's AI-generated cousin is back to continue pretending to be an actual artist. This time, its by actively denigrating the works of Studio Ghibli:
Unsurprisingly, he is getting raked over the coals by basically everyone. He's also having an utter meltdown in the replies.
Lol the guy has gotten dragged by everybody so hard for his AI stances a while back, that he now has to double down and call AI superior. Meanwhile on Yt there is now a group of people who pay rent just making 'this guy stinks' videos.
E: The ratio on the replies/qt/likes oof. (Also, lol in his 'you have already lost, I drew myself as the chad and you as the soyjak' image he drew himself as a group of children). E2: sorry closed it
Do you think he knows that "inspired" and "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090" are not the same word?
Edit: oh no I read the replies.
By "better", he means "more fuckable".
And by "more fuckable", he means "refusing/unable to consent".
In case you missed it, a couple sneers came out against AI from mainstream news outlets recently - CNN's put out an article titled "Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown", whilst the New York Times recently proclaimed "The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes".
You want my take on this development, I'm with Ed Zitron on this - this is a sign of an impending sea change. Looks like the bubble's finally nearing its end.
The NYT also ran this little story about Bloomberg having "to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year".
Turns out that they can only stack shit so high before it falls back to earth
Taking a shot in the dark, journalistic incidents like Bloomberg's failed tests with AI summaries and the BBC's complaints about Apple AI mangling headlines probably helped with accelerating that fall to earth - for any journalists reading about or reporting on such shitshows, it likely shook their faith in AI's supposed abilities in a way failures outside their field didn't.
By refusing to focus on a single field at a time AI companies really did make it impossible to take advantage of Gel-Mann amnesia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515426
https://github.com/typedgrammar/typed-japanese
This project is still in very early stages and heavily relies on LLM-generated grammar rules, which may occasionally contain hallucinations or inaccuracies.
お前はもう死んでいる
Edit: from the English version of this project:
export type Pronoun = 'I' | 'you' | 'he' | 'she' | 'it' | 'we' | 'they' | 'me' | 'him' | 'her' | 'us' | 'them';
Ah yes, definitely the only pronouns in all of English
Is Japanese really that strict
my Japanese uncle that works at nintendo says yes. If you write わ instead of は they make you 切腹 in front of all your friends
Using an LLM to shit out grammar for an old school symbolic language model is a poetic ouroboros of AI circlejerking.
In other news, Elon Musk's personal chatbot has proudly proclaimed its available on Telegram, and its proclamation got picked up by The Verge:
Right now, the integration is limited to "Grok's available as an optional chatbot", but going by what I've seen on BlueSky, people are already taking this as their cue to jump ship to Signal.
For some reason it's on brand for HN to have a discussion of different dash widths stick on the front page more than 24h
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719
Extra spice and relevance for the observation that GenAI text apparently has a lot of em-dashes in it, so add that to the frequency of the word "delve".
alright, fine, i'll do it.
webshit weekly (2025/03/27)
How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
Grammar Nazis (as opposed to the regular kind) publish a guide on how to best calibrate your printing press to 17th-century standards. Several Hackernews (some of which are the regular kind) offer their own competing, more-detailed guides in response. The concern is raised that using too many typographic dashes makes you sound like ChatGPT, to much dismay of those still diligently copying from the Google (business model: "Uber for glue pizza") results page for "em dash". Multiple Hackernews take the opportunity to call the group of people who do not care about the millimeter difference between the types of dashes "NPCs".
This was strangely comforting. A++
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