Charlie Stross4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/116255252453377471

Also note the very foreign road layout, mail carrier, foreign cop, non-Scottish suburb and buildings, and all the rest of the imagery. That illustration exemplified American cultural imperialism from top to bottom. (And looking at the shadows, the sun NEVER gets that high overhead—when you can see it at all, that is!)

Show threadVery Human Robot4d ago

@cstross
Why do you hate our FREEDOM?
(Red tailed hawk sounds)

Seriously, though: Good tools let your control them, rather than hallucinate from scratch. Upload a couple of street pictures from Edinburgh and use that as reference. We have a massive tool-teaching challenge ahead of us, just like with the Internet.

Show threadCharlie Stross4d ago
@StompyRobot And what about the linguistic usage? (American training texts in LLMs outnumber all other English language dialects massively, let alone Scots, which is *not* the same as English-English by a long way, even before we get into stuff like Doric and Highland Gaelic …)
Show threadVery Human Robot4d ago

@cstross
Again, the big models will do better when provided the right reference.

FWIW the models actually have a significant Nigerian English bias, because a lot of data was created there for cost reasons.

Also, the user has to guide the model on the actual plot and character, or you'll get a very "dice table" vibe in the output.

I don't agree with humans who just let the slop machine do what it wants. I also don't agree with humans who refuse to use the tool at all. We're at the beginning.

Show threadRaven Onthill3d ago
@StompyRobot @cstross If it's this much work to edit the output, wouldn't it be better just to have written and drawn the thing in the first place?
Show threadVery Human Robot
@ravenonthill @cstross
Use whatever tools you feel works best for you!
Just realize others have different preferences.
Output that people like is the end goal!
Mar 21 at 6:39pmWeb