Nora Reed
a thing that's disappointing about every gpt that has come out lately is that under gpt2 the output seemed both extremely weird and a lot less easy to pass off as human
Apr 30, 2023 at 10:54pmWeb
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
i had such a good time with gpt2. gpt2 was a bud. gpt2 came up with the phrase "they had not the grace of men nor the courage of dogs" for me once. chatgpt sounds like a business major
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
my only interest in text generators are as sparks for human imagination. gpt2 was great at doing that kind of weird shit. it was stranger and better than markov chains for this.
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
gpt2 would help you do strange shit that would spark imagination but didn't seem in immediate danger of replacing the entire internet with autogenerated meaningless slop, which is the primary use cased of modern gpt shit, whether that's what people want it to be used for or not
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
i would never attempt to create something akin to the fluxus art movement with chatgpt
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
robots are better when they are clearly failing at performing humanity and you can watch the ways they do so and see yourself in them like a twisted mirror
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
one of the best generators on the internet was a thing called "lost in translation" that autotranslated any text you made through like 15 languages and then back to english for you. it was hilarious. it made you think about language and translation technology and what counts as nonsense
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
the joy to be found in these things is always around the edges.
Show threadJes WolfeMay 1, 2023
@NoraReed I am under the impression that it’s still possible to bypass the blank white voice of capitalism and get to weird shit if you use the API directly, but that’s definitely a bit of a barrier, I haven’t tried it
Show threadnhanApr 30, 2023
@NoraReed you're talking about output of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 being not weird and can be passed off as human? Why's that disappointing?
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
@nhan because i like to have fun on the computer
Show threadnhanApr 30, 2023
@NoraReed okay just want to clarify. Most people want the opposite of what you want. And I prefer it to behave weird when I want it to and not all the time.
Show threadNora ReedApr 30, 2023
@nhan i am not stupid and so already know this
Show threadkira :3May 1, 2023
@NoraReed i miss when ai was fun and we were getting stuff like that or like weird lumpy hazy images of whoopi goldberg at the big bang and washing machine last suppers and weird cats. like we should have just stopped at that kind, when it was fun and not ruining anything
Show threadAlbotMay 1, 2023
@NoraReed so true. Gpt4 can do it a bit with the right prompt but you’re always fighting the RLHF