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  • Just cant resist provoking hostility to feed that persecution complex, can you.

    See, this is unhinged. You’ve been antagonizing them this entire time.

    You’ve criticized them for bringing up rape, and yet you just can’t seem to leave them alone, can you? Weird.

    Some poor sap has come in here just to say something like “McDonald’s shouldn’t run their coffee machine so god damn hot if it’s going to fuse labia together,” and you’ve come in to correct the record: “Hm. Well. Actually, the only safe way to handle hot coffee is not to buy one. I’m very smart.” Cool. Thanks, dude. I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but I’m glad the abstinence-only sex ed seems to be working for you.







  • That’s right! Exactly.

    For instance, this is public, and if a bunch of random weirdos came in here and started saying things like “whoa, who let the monkey out of his cage?” or “I’m about to put something on his public platform = 1,000 unsolicited dicks,” there’s absolutely nothing you, or I, can do about that—and it would be wrong to do anything, of course!

    You’re cool, man, you get it.








  • I was equivocating singular words and entire sentences on purpose.

    If you can recombine sentences in interesting ways, into paragraphs that are your own ideas, that isn’t plagiarism. Why would “people can’t construct unique sentences either” be a rebuttal if that’s not what plagiarsm is?

    Instead it studies the prior work of humans, finds patterns and combines these in unique and novel ways.

    You’re anthropomorphising.

    LLMs are little clink-clink machines that produce the most typical output. That’s how they’re trained. Ten thousand inputs say this image is of a streetlight? That’s how it knows.

    The fact an LLM knows what a Lord of Rings is at all means that Tolkien’s words, the images, the sounds, are all encoded in its weights somewhere. You can’t see them, it’s a black box, but they live there.

    Could you say the same of the human brain? Sure. I know what a neuron is.

    But, LLMs are not people.

    All of that is besides the point, though. I was just floored by how cynical you could be about your own supposed craft.

    A photograph of, say, a pretty flower is fantastic. As an enjoyer of art myself, I love it when people communicate things. People can share in the beauty that you saw. They can talk about it. Talk about how the colors and the framing make them feel. But if you’re view is that you’re not actually adding anything, you’re just doing more of what already exists, I really don’t know why you bother.

    Nobody has seen every photo in the world.

    Okay, assume someone has. Is your art meaningless, then? All of photography is just spectacle, and all the spectacles have been seen?


  • it doesn’t mean you can’t combine them in a unique ways

    Okay, so you don’t believe new things can’t be unique. You just think that plagiarism is when one person uses the word ‘the’ and then a second person uses the word ‘the’.

    Why do you find it such a depressing idea?

    That art is dead? Through sheer saturation alone, no one has anything left to say? That watching the new Cinderella is line-by-line the same as watching the old Cinderella, and the money machine keeps this corpse moving along only because people are too stupid to realize they’re being sold books from a library? I really don’t know how you couldn’t.

    This is like asking me why a polluted lake is sad.