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"The red recording light promised truth; the coffee beside it had already stamped it with a brown ring on the console. ... I adjusted the pop filter, as if I wanted to politely count the German language's teeth."
GPT-5 is optimized to produce garbage that is evaluated positively by other LLMs.
https://futurism.com/gpt-5-literary-outputs
AI: "Social Text affair? hold my beer"
FFS, Futurism:
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REJECT!
https://strauhof.ch/ausstellungen/maschinenpoesie/
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bajohr
Rich men have decided this should not happen, that high quality data should always be expensive and scarce. But how to accomplish this? The commons cannot be enclosed in a digital space--so they are salting them.
To all non-native English speakers: The cited sentence is gibberish. There is nothing you don't understand or miss out, no reason to search the web for a proper phrase translation. No need to despair or doubt your own abilities. It's just AI nonsense.
Exactly! "The policeman's beard is half-constructed."
(Only the 1980s chatbot RACTER—which delivered tha above—could run in 256Kb of RAM on a PC XT without burning forests and turning tidal estuaries into steam.)
A long time friend many years ago told me about RACTER and he said then it was good at fooling folks it was human because it was coded to be a bit of an asshole and not listen well.
I never interacted with RACTER and always wondered if this was true. And because I was spelling RACTER wrong I could never find any mention of it!
I was wondering: Oh, did I miss some meanings of "stamed" and went curious about the meaning of "teeth counting" (English can be weird sometimes).
Then I decided to read the article 🫠
Isn't AI used for language training already? 🙈
It's beginning to read rather like a coded message asking for help, from the kids imprisoned inside the machine. The big man promised truth and food ... but it came in tubes. He was so close, putting them in, I could count his teeth.
I am beginning to suspect that OpenAI have replaced all their human software managers with LLMs, otherwise this transparent garbage would never have been green-lit for public exposure.
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