Yeah it was my manager's idea to use CHATGPT this way actually.

Sometimes I would ask it for book recommendations. For example, I would ask it for "a fantasy novel starring a transgender witch". It gives SUCH convincing synopses of a bunch of books but any time you ask it to clarify any of them suddenly it apologises and says it made a mistake. I got taken in by a description of The Priory of the Orange Tree which was a good enough book, but man, the supposed 'dragon-riding sword-wielding witch' was actually three completely different characters and none of them were trans.

I basically use it to draft generic advertisements from clients, particularly the ones who get SO MAD if you do anything other than something completely generic.

I'm not joking by the way. Just slap the client's brief in there, try to spice it up, somehow they're happy with the result. And if they're not well at least I didn't waste more than three minutes on it.

If corporations can have human rights, so will the AI produced by these corporations.

Capitalist fantasy meets science fantasy.

When my grandfather died I was sad for a long time but he had lived a full and long life and had a massive community remember him at his funeral.

When my dog died I was devastated for months. He was just eight years old and had been sick for a year and a half and I had tried so hard to take care of him and in the end he died because the vet that my family took him to overdosed him on a medicine that, even months after he took it, gradually ruined his liver.

So I was not just sad about my dog but I was wracked with a horrible sense of guilt for trusting the wrong vets and not being smart enough to know better. I kept replaying scenarios where I managed to cure him early or sidestep a mistake over and over and over, even though it was a shared responsibility among my family (I didn't even see the particular vet that prescribed that medicine that killed him, I always took him to other ones) I kept seeing it as a solo mission that I failed.

So I think the thing about death is that the circumstances really make a big difference how you react to them. Not all passing will make you feel such an awful sense of guilt.

Baby elephants are so great because they're clearly smart which just highlights how stupid they're being sometimes.

Luddite doesn't mean anyone who voices their concerns about the ethics of technology. When you figure out an AI that doesn't learn off of stolen art that you don't have permission to use to make your own product, let me know.

No, I never rever a piece of music so much that I'd feel the need to separate it from its artist just to justify listening to it. There's always going to be more amazing music by less terrible people.

Howl's Moving Castle has a very slow start but if you push through it it's worth it. Took me a month to get past the first bit and then a day to read the rest lmao.

I don't see how that contradicts mummification for preservation. Like, literally why not both? They weren't accidentally doing everything you're supposed to do to preserve people.

Boooo cowards

"Revealed"? I thought everyone already knew that?

That's extremely interesting! Could you share what the larger scope of the Giza Project entails?

... Sigh. There goes the draft for my sci-fi novel. Fuck.