AliceOverZero

Rogue Trans Void Witch

  • she/her

To evolve, to flourish.
To let die that which makes you dead.
My short fiction
Tag for my longform posts.


wgwgsa
@wgwgsa

the funniest thing about nanowrimo allowing LLMs to be used to write is that there already exists and has existed for well over a decade an equivalent project, NaNoGenMo, about writing code to generate 50k words. it's always been tongue-in-cheek, but some of the submissions are genuinely interesting and funny - people finding the most absurd ways they can generate 50k words, or people making enormous walls of ASCII art and calling it a "novel," etc. it's been going on since long, long before LLMs existed.

one of the most memorable for me was someone generating a script for two players playing the card game "war," and running it over and over again until they reached a game so unbearably long and tedious that it crossed the 50k word threshold.

like, obviously, writing code to generate many "words" can be beautiful, can be thought-provoking, is a project in itself. and they could have appealed to that. but no they said "it's racist of you to not like the prose of chatGPT." says a lot about their intentions and what they consider to be the point of nanowrimo!



SamKeeper
@SamKeeper

it's this one here:

and the bit I keep coming back to is:

Here’s a boring sentence I wrote: “Quinn entered the dark and cold forest.”

And here’s a sentence Rephrase gave me: “Quinn shivered as he stepped into the cold, dark forest, the air thick with the scent of damp earth.”

I can build off that! Now I’m more excited to write this scene that was feeling bland.

this is so weird to me. like, ok, first off, the whole premise here is oh look how this tool let me replace a boring placeholder sentence with something better? but the llm's sentence also feels pretty "it was a dark and stormy night" tier to me you know? this is nothing to (literally) write home about surely. it's, by definition, a statistically cliched sentence and it shows.

but it's also like... ok you've allowed a statistical algorithm to make a ton of choices for your setting and narrative here! did you even notice?



DavidForbes
@DavidForbes

Curse Null, the amazing trans woman who wrote the above reminder against collaboration, is now homeless. It desperately needs funds to extend a hotel stay while trying to seek more lasting housing, as well as for food and other essentials.

Curse's paypal is dimmekur at gmail. Anything helps.


aloe
@aloe
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osedax
@osedax

the way dogwhistles work is due to their element of plausible deniability, the fact that a lot of people wouldn't pick up on things, the fact that the connections can be opaque, the fact that they maintain acceptable to post, engage with, and circulate.
the fact that they are so widespread & so innocent-seeming that people calling that shit out seem paranoid or getting worked up over nothing.

all this allows for racists, alt-right, neo-nazis, what-have-you dangerous bigots, to make posts very much about their beliefs and the way they see the world,
& people who should, people who would usually, fight back and try and shut it down, see it and go
Haha. pepehands