Via @nickheer this captures the banality of Chat AI "creativity" really well - https://colinmeloy.substack.com/p/i-had-chatgpt-write-a-decemberists
I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song

And I recorded it. Here's "Sailor's Song."

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@jsnell @nickheer I played the song without context for my wife and she was like “wtf were those lyrics?”
@jsnell @nickheer For fun, I asked GPT to summarize this article. While technically accurate, I just find this a very funny way to say these things.
@jsnell @nickheer …next time on AI’s got talent… 🤖

@jsnell @nickheer even though I agree with the banality of AI creativity, and their lack of intuition, shouldn’t we take into account the fact that we’re experiencing a step in a longer journey?

If it’s capable to do this sort of thing right now, won’t it improve? And if it does, shouldn’t we be discussing at least the attribution problems raised by artists being imitated by the art generative AI’s?

@rmaraujo @nickheer I think if you've listened to my podcasts you've probably heard me discuss the problems, was I supposed to add some footnotes here?
@rmaraujo l I would like you to ponder that not every post on social media is about every facet of an issue. Suggesting we are not taking things into account, and aren't discussing important issues -- when we are! but not in individual posts -- is not helpful. You can add to the discussion without framing it as a failure on the part of a post. It was a post linking to a story about a very specific aspect of a large, complex issue.
@jsnell sorry if that came out wrong, I wasn’t trying to point fingers, nor question you guys (whom I respect dearly).
That’s a subject I’m really interested in and I’d love to discuss it more. 😊
@jsnell @nickheer The bit about intuition is so succinct and true.

@jsnell @nickheer “That’s one thing an AI can’t have, intuition.”

No, this is exactly backwards. Intuition is finding hidden connections that reason fails to identify. That’s what one of these models does, whether it’s a large language model or image diffusion: identify latent connections. That’s all it does. It has no reason, at all. Modern AI models are pure, unadulterated intuition.

@scier @nickheer You know we didn't write the article right
@jsnell @nickheer Ha yeah but who else am I gonna discuss my profound insights with? Colin Meloy isn’t on mastodon and ChatGPT makes a terrible debate partner, it just agrees with everything you say