cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29967160
List in question:
https://bsky.app/profile/tbretc.bsky.social/post/3lpme473fdc2z
Only way to fix that is to bribe Andy to write it now.
“The story follows a programmer who discovers that an AI system has developed consciousness — and has been secretly influencing global events for years,”
If I was Andy I’d give it a go. At worst it could be a funny prompt for a short story.
It sounds like the AI is dropping hints
That sounds fun. If that was written well I’d probably read that.
Not an exact match, but Level 5 by Macleod Andrews is in this vein.
If he won’t write it, maybe have him use an AI to write it? 🤔
The psyop here is to convince people that AI is real. In reality computers are not intelligent, but the powerful would love to divest their apparent responsibility.
However, `the computer said I had to do it´ will ultimately fail the Nuremburg Defense
The piece was filed by Marco Buscaglia, who told 404 Media, “I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can’t believe I missed it because it’s so obvious. No excuses. On me 100 percent and I’m completely embarrassed.” He added, “This is just idiotic of me, really embarrassed. When I found it [online], it was almost surreal to see.”
Seems like a reasonable response, but not believable. This was being lazy and putting too much trust in a shortcut. Consequences need to exist, harsh ones, to keep this from occurring more and more.
The Chicago Sun-Times released a brief statement on the matter via social media in response to author Chuck Wendig: “We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak. It is not editorial content and was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom.”
Another lie. From their Union. (https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1krimtw/chicago_suntimes_union_response_to_ai_slop_content/):
I hope you all know we are equally as disgusted and angry about this — and it isn’t lost on us that this comes just months after 20% of our newsroom was lost to buyouts.
They need editorial staff. It was a syndicated peice, not from their Union newsroom, that apparently nobody is staffed to review.
It is depressing to me how many people are so effectively fooled by what can best be described as a glorified parlor trick. It’s not intelligence, it’s a probable output to a novel input. The hype around LLMs is like watching a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat, and trying to hire him to help you start a rabbit farm. That’s not what’s happening, and you should know better.
LLMs aren’t worthless, they’re great for language manipulation, because that’s what they are. But just because a string of characters makes a valid sentence in a language, that doesn’t mean the sentence is valid in the real world.
Some author will totally use that book title.
Andy Weir could use that book title, considering hes still alive and writing books lmao
This is Weir, of The Martian fame, who writes well-researched realistic sci-fi. His book Artemis has been less well received, but its fantastic as well and written in the same style
e: idk how I forgot. He also wrote the famous short story The Egg, which is the basis for (and performed as an audio skit) on Logic’s Everybody
He also wrote the webcomic Casey & Andy, which holds up. Imo.
In fairness, it’s not a bad title or premise…
Man, just for this false hope we should ban all AI forever.
I don’t have to read this article to know exactly what it says
Could a LLM write that novel in the style of Weir?
If you trained it on his works and gave it the proper vocabulary and grammar rules, quite probably.
Well… Dandelion Wine is real…
Oh no, we’ll miss out on another story featuring a totally-not-a-self-insert Mary Sue le epic Redditor MC single-handedly sciencing the fuck out of everything?
It’s almost mandatory to have a Mary Sue in situations where shit hits the fan in space. Otherwise you’ll just have a dead character pretty quickly.
Robinson Crusoe wasn’t a Mary Sue, and that’s the archetype of the genre. Andy is just not a very good writer. In his defence, though, at least he isn’t Ernest Cline.
Who is Ernest Cline? The Eragon guy?
Ready Player One
The Ready Player One guy.
In addition to Ready Player One (and its sequel), he also wrote this poem. I don’t have the adjectives to describe it, so see for yourself:
Nerd Porn Auteur
I’ve noticed that there don’t seem to be any porno movies
that are made for guys like me.
All the porn I’ve come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males
Men who like their women stupid and submissive
Men who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos
with gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary
Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected
liposuctioned women
Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation
in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.
These aren’t real women. They’re objects.
And these movies aren’t erotic. They’re pathetic.
These vacuum-headed fuck bunnies don’t turn me on.
They disgust me.
And it’s not that I’m against pornography.
I mean, I’m a guy. And guys need porn.
Fact.
“Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,”
Guys need porn.
But I don’t wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.
I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:
Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world
is a woman who is smarter than you are.
You can have the whole cheerleading squad,
I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:
Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.
Oh yes.
First I want to copy her Trig homework,
and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her
for hours and hours
until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
because she doesn’t want to miss Battlestar Galactica.
Summa cum laude, baby!
That is what I call erotic.
But do you ever see that kind of a woman in a contemporary adult film?
No.
Which is why I’m going to start writing and directing Geek Porno.
I shall be the quintessential Nerd Porn Auteur.
And the women in my porno movies will be the kind
that drive nerds like me mad with desire.
I’m talking about the girls that used to fuck up the grading curve.
The girls in the Latin Club and the National Honor Society.
Chicks with weird clothes, braces, four eyes, and 4.0 GPAs.
Brainy articulate bookworms, with MENSA cards in their purses
and chips on their shoulders.
My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.
My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.
In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn’t even have to get naked.
They’d just take the guys down to the rec room and
beat them repeatedly at chess
and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.
Buy stock in some hand cream companies
because there is about to be a major shortage.
And I’m not just talking about straight porn. Oh no.
There should be fuck films for my nerd brethren
of all sexual orientations.
Gay nerd porn flicks with titles like “Dungeons and Drag-queens.”
This idea is a fucking gold mine.
I am gonna make millions,
because this country is full of database programmers
and electronics engineers
and they aren’t getting the loving they so desperately need.
And you can help . . .
If you’re an intelligent woman is interested in breaking into the adult film industry,
and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker’s home planet,
then you are hired.
It doesn’t matter if you think you’re overweight or unattractive.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t think you’re beautiful.
You are beautiful. . .
And I will make you a star.
Making me read that is psychological warfare. BRB, I’m going to call Geneva and tell her you are violating her convention.
Andy Weir found his genre niche and stuck to it. And within that genre niche, I find he’s a competent writer, both technically and I’d say artistically, with strengths and weaknesses. The combination has made his works genuinely enjoyable for me. Ernest Cline, while admittedly not for me, doesn’t seem to be in the same league.
Here’s a funny MST3K-style review of one of his books: http://372pages.com/episode-141-book-24-artemis
Nononono the solution isn’t for him to write that novel, it’s for him to write “The First Algorithm”.
Gladly, not sadly. (Edit: I like Andy Weir books fwiw and will happily read what he puts out next, my comment was rebuking the notion that I am sad to read a book that AI slop hallucinated.)
