Nature's Folly: A Response to "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably"
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Though wrapped in the aesthetic of science, this paper is a pure expression of the AI hype’s ideology, including its reliance on invisible, alienated labor. Its data was manufactured to spec to support the authors’ pre-existing beliefs, and its conclusions are nothing but a re-articulation of their arrogance and ideological impoverishment.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•1 month ago

    I like your blog because (years ago, when I first learned the word), I used to attach negative connotations to the word “luddite”, and your blog’s name and topics made me realise my interpretation of historical Luddites was uncharitable.

    To be fair, as a Millennial, most of my earliest experiences with tech were super positive, so it’s no wonder why I simplified things down to “luddites = anti-technology = bad”.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      12•1 month ago

      I’m really glad to hear that, because that was exactly my hope. It’s always impactful to realize that the history you thought you knew was just capital’s side of the story. It has happened to me too many times to count, and I’m sure that it’ll happen a million times more.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          7•29 days ago

          Yeah I’m a fan. I’ve always had a bit of a niche interest in proto-socialist movements, like the luddites, the diggers, etc., so, at first, it felt like a sorta crazy coincidence that I started writing my blog just before his book came out, but then I realized that it’s not. We, like everyone else, are just living through the same stupid shit.