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  • What word do they want to unambiguously represent that concept now?

    "Literally, not figuratively", said in a Sterling Archer voice.

    The use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric is not new—evidence of this use dates back to 1769. Its inclusion in a dictionary isn't new either; the entry for literally in our 1909 unabridged dictionary states that the word is “often used hyperbolically; as, he literally flew.”

    — Merriam-Webster

  • From the r/SunoAI subreddit: "Sick of having to come up with prompts".

    Hey y’all, looking for some tips here. I like what I’ve made so far with Suno but now I’m kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn’t Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says “new prompt” and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?

    (Via Dan of the Year.)

  • Bloomberg covers the disastrous impact of AI upon food recipes, while still putting an "AI overview" on the top of the page...

    In interviews, 22 independent food creators said that AI-generated “recipe slop” is distorting nearly every way people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses while causing consumers to waste time and money.

    Across the internet, writers say their vetted recipes are hidden by the flood. Pinterest feeds are stuffed with AI-generated images of food that the attached instructions won’t achieve; Google’s AI Overviews surface error-filled cooking steps that siphon away clicks from professionals. Meanwhile, Facebook content farms use AI-generated images of supposedly delicious but impossible dishes to the top of people’s feeds, in an attempt to turn any clicks into ad revenue.

    All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have. To Gargano, this is the core issue. “No matter how clever the AI is,” she said in a recent interview, “it can never actually test a recipe in a real kitchen and see how it works.”

    [...]

    For Carrie Forrest, who runs Clean Eating Kitchen, AI has been devastating: 80% of her traffic — and her revenue — has disappeared in two years. Although the views started dropping when OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released, it wasn’t until Google launched AI Mode in search that her traffic collapsed, she said. Since then, she’s gone from employing about ten people to letting everyone go. “I’m going to have to find something else to do.”

    This holiday season is on track to be Forrest’s slowest in years. She fears that if more content creators give up, the AI won’t have new content to draw from — except content generated by AI. It may get to a point where “AI is just talking to itself,” and home cooks are gambling with the results, she said.

  • Step 1. Get a silly idea

    1. Develop the silly idea as seriously as possible for love of the craft
    2. Continue because it's cheaper than therapy
    3. Push yourself to finish because by Gad 2020 needed a counterweight
    4. Invent a new fantasy setting and rewrite whole chunks because Neil Gaiman went and smegshake ducked himself
  • "Nano banana pro" sounds like a relic of tiki fashion that manages to be racist in a way we have mostly forgotten.

  • I am still avoiding YouTube, so I guess "hj" will mean handjob forever.

  • Both follow-up tweets end in periods, so I guess he transitioned to being completely serious 1/3 of the way through? Or maybe a missing period means a joke, a present period means he's serious, and partial periodization means that he's typing with one hand.

  • Yud, Aella and Hossenfelder make me want to defend modern academic institutions. Granted, that's not nearly as impressive as Scott Aaronson getting me to sympathize with a cop, but it's still an achievement.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Prof. Emily M. Bender starts a thread with a good zing

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    Yud on brevity being the soul of wit

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    Serious Yud or Joking Yud?

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    How do you make book banning even worse? Ask ChatGPT which books to ban

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    SneerClub Classic: Big Yud's Mad Men Cosplay

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    SneerClub Classic: got em (first posted 17 October 2021)

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    SneerClub Classic: Professor Primal Poly shares one simple dating tip (first posted 27 Oct 2021)

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    "If you think you can point to an unnecessary sentence within [HPMoR], go ahead and try."