But someone who’s so AI-brained that they only read each sentence in isolation might think that that sentence should read “As well, as men what they think of stone.” Which reads more smoothly but makes no sense in context.
This seems to be a truly AI-brained reading comprehension fail, because there’s no punctuation missing from that sentence. There are *words* missing (“[You might] as well ask men what they think of stone”) but that’s because it’s spoken dialogue and people speak often speak in shorthand.
Mary in the Black-and-White Room thought experiment except this time it’s an AI that has never smelled a woman’s fart.
How meaningful is this? I tried to make the test as fair as possible by including only the best works from each category; on the human side, that meant taking prestigious works that had survived the test of time; on the Al side, it meant tossing the many submissions that had garbled text, misshapen hands, or some similar deformity. But this makes it unrepresentative of a world where many Al images will have these errors.
I also tried to pick human works with a minimum of "tells" that would reveal their humanity without requiring any subtle artistic discrimination. So I stayed away from text (non-garbled text would be a strong sign that a picture was human), complicated wrestling-like poses (Als mostly can't do these and end up with limbs emerging from nowhere) and pop art (something about the clean lines and replicated images is a bad match for Al's abilities). Again, this makes the test unrepresentative of a world where some art does have these "tells"
Might have been this one. The creator of the quiz went into detail about how much he had to cherry-pick on both sides in order to make it “fair” for the AI. www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-yo...
Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, featuring a landscape with melting pocket watches
“Human art often includes errors of physics. Here, Salvador Dalí has accidentally painted these pocket watches in a semi-fluid state, when in fact pocket watches are necessarily made out of solid materials. Current GenAI image models have evolved beyond such trifling mistakes.”
Text saying "You've read your last free article."
Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:
Parents shouldn't be forced to have those conversations until the time is right.
And by the right time I mean when they're having a kaiju battle with their child admidst the wreckage of a 4*Town concert.
We study the economic and psychological effects of a USD 1076 PPP unconditional cash transfer, a five-week psychotherapy program, and the combination of both interventions among 5,756 individuals in rural Kenya. One year after the interventions, cash transfer recipients had higher consumption, asset holdings, and revenue, as well as higher levels of psychological well-being than control households. In contrast, the psychotherapy program had no measurable effects on either psychological or economic outcomes, both for individuals with poor mental health at baseline and others. The effects of the combined treatment are similar to those of the cash transfer alone.
An experiment a few years ago compared the effects of giving people therapy vs. just giving them a bunch of cash.
The cash won. ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/iuiwop...
Celebrating International Women's Day by working through the flu because I can't afford not to!
Thread screenshot that reads “losing an hour on international women’s day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar” from user teewatters
The words "I am in hell help me" scrawled on a wall in red paint
Managed to catch the flu twice in the same flu season.
Pen sketch of woman yelling at a defiant cat
When learning to draw it is essential to study the master works
So they're going to make an exception specifically for those looking to make a profit?
Are they also planning to make burglary legal if you can prove you intend to sell the stuff that you stole?
tbf PR has gotten a lot easier since news outlets fired all their fact-checkers
Amazon isn't actually involved at all, though the press release certainly strives to make it sound that way. The "news" is that they've hired a guy who used to oversee social media accounts for Amazon's UK/EU TV shows.
From Mark Whelan's LinkedIn page: Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Full-time · 6 yrs 2 mosFull-time · 6 yrs 2 mos Senior Social Operations Manager Senior Social Operations Manager Feb 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mosFeb 2022 to Present · 4 yrs 2 mos Greater London, England, United KingdomGreater London, England, United Kingdom • Define and drive adoption of EU-wide social platform strategies • Led social expansion strategy, launching 21 social handles across 7 new locales • Oversaw EU-wide agency restructure to centralise paid media management• Define and drive adoption of EU-wide social platform strategies • Led social expansion strategy, launching 21 social handles across 7 new locales • Oversaw EU-wide agency restructure to centralise paid media management Social Media Video Manager (EU-wide) Social Media Video Manager (EU-wide) Feb 2020 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 moFeb 2020 to Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo London, United KingdomLondon, United Kingdom • Launched Grand Tour Tiktok handle, growing from 0 to 500k+ followers in 4 months • Produced original YouTube formats, with one format adapted into an Amazon Original • Managed UK, NL, DE YouTube handles
"Why are you describing this guy as an 'Amazon Exec' when his job was running TikTok accounts?"
"We were in a lot of boardrooms around February time, and everyone was like, 'No, this is nothing. It's not going to happen'. Then, by May, people were like, 'We need to do something with you guys? When we first launched Tilly, people were like, 'What's that?, and now we're going to be announcing which agency is going to be representing her in the next few months," said Van der Velden.
Some follow-up questions you could have asked instead of blindly reprinting the press release:
“What happened to all those talent agencies that were clamoring to sign Tilly Norwood as a client? Didn’t you say in September that you were going to be announcing a contract soon? What happened to that?”
The CEO of Particle6, Eline van der Velden, announced the "rapid expansion" of Tilly Norwood and its universe on Monday in a press release. Van der Velden has also recruited Amazon Executive Mark Whelan from Prime Video as Head of Strategy and Operations for the AI talent studio Xicoia, which is part of Particle6.
Huh, I wonder what happened to all those big Hollywood talent agencies that were totally clamoring to sign Tilly Norwood?
One of the biggest problems with modern media is the way they uncritically repeat the bullshit these liars say to them in their sales pitches. Stop being PR agents for assholes.
Beautiful rendering on the vampire girlfriend!
An AI slop bear with bear claws
a close-up of weird human hands counting money
Big fan of the bear paws that change into human hands for certain shots, because Gemini's training dataset doesn't have enough footage of paws doing complicated stuff.
A man breathing down another man’s neck
0.5 seconds after you start trying to sketch something in a museum:
'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' star Peter Claffey doing an impression of Stewie from 'Family Guy'
Pretty spot on 😂
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
Trent Crimm, The Independent?
One of the things I love about Gen Z is how they take all the little millennial snark sayings seriously. We said “hang it in the louvre” for two decades and they said “bet”
6 minutes long so can't repost here, sorry
But vital video from a black woman with tourettes on the misunderstandings and hurt going on in viral discourse over John Davidson at the BAFTAs.
two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that
being at the age where everyone you know is having children
