Merlin

I draw! In my Project hail Mary era

[illumerlin]

Doomed Yuri but it's me being so tired and anxious about the world I can't even sit down and draw girls kissing

[illumerlin]

I have finally watched Iron Lung

[alnitaks]

starry.eyed.stitcher

[headspace-hotel]

I'm dead convinced that a significant portion of AI companies' revenue is spent paying off every major media outlet NOT to point out all the obvious problems with it + creating legions of bots and bullshit articles online to hype AI up

cause like. apart from the (potential) exception of writing code, there is not really anything useful that a Large Language Model can do.

it imitates patterns in the text that it takes in

that's fundamentally how it works

if a Large Language Model can produce text that looks like something a human created, that doesn't mean it can do a human's job, it means that the paperwork/plan/document it's being used to create no longer fucking means anything

[headspace-hotel]

Yes, haha funny, the AI is bamboozled by spelling, but seriously: I asked Google the same question 5 different times just now, and not only did I get 5 incorrect answers, I got 5 completely different incorrect answers.

The fact that they're different every time demonstrates just how much of an LLM's output is up to random chance. This is how LLMs imitate human language: each stage of constructing the text has built-in randomness, just like how human language has variation and flexibility.

This is my problem with using these things in the workplace. Like, imagine you're using an LLM to fill out a report of an accident that happened, or to write dietary recommendations for a patient, or to give feedback on a paper a student wrote...really anything you can think of.

Even if the LLM-generated text doesn't say anything technically flat-out wrong, the words and details are still randomized instead of being chosen by you for an actual reason.

Using an LLM for these tasks means it doesn't matter to you exactly what you write, what words you use, what details you include, or what meaning it has, just that it looks like you wrote something.

[cheap-slaw]

Learn to walk again

[dinomoder]

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

[gay-mooshrooms]

[illumerlin]

If I die and you use chat GPT to write my eulogy, my ghost will haunt you for eternity.

👁️ 👁️

[illumerlin]

Many Rockys for your enjoyment

More phm Fanart

[archermadeart]

The eyes remind me of Everything Everywhere All at Once and I love that

[illumerlin]

Facts

[illumerlin]

Many Rockys for your enjoyment

More phm Fanart

[will2150]

Coltland Twin AU

"The Accident"

[externalmemorycomic]

I'm posting a shit tonne of comics on patreon this month, great time to sign up! 750+ pages!

[wildestlovers]

embarrassment is the cost of entry.

if you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master.

[illumerlin]

Ryland Grace side profile appreciation (Again)

[illumerlin]

In my gnome era

[illumerlin]

That's the full spread btw

[illumerlin]

Gnome

[orteil42]

am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)