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*Important question: what dialects of "AI Delvish" exist in languages other than English
*There may already be some very small, extinct or near-extinct human languages which exist *only* in Delvish
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*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to... uh, Hollywood
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Top Delvish Nouns: 1. Advent 2. Nuance 3. Trajectory 4. Nexus 5. Dance 6. Forefront 7. Pitfalls 8. Celebration 9. Insights 10. Breakthrough
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Free Delvish Remover: #Pygmalion #Liza #GeorgeBernardShaw #underclassAIspeak #upgradedmachineslop
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*The people most upset about Delvish are SEO hustlers worried that Google will downrank their ChatGPT texts. So it's a new field of linguistic study that's already remarkably sleazy.
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Top Delvish Adverbs 1. Comprehensively 2. Increasingly 3. Surprisingly 4. Vividly 5. Significantly 6. Namely 7. Originally 8. Dramatically 9. Highly 10. Ultimately
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Some top Delvish verbs, although "delve" itself, oddly, didn't make the list.
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"Machine slop, gray goo, AI mulch, botshit, fluff" + "ChatGPTisms"
#neologisms #synonyms #lists
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The top Delvish adjectives: 1. Multifaceted 2. Rapid 3. Transformative 4. Uncharted 5. Comprehensive 6. Inclusive 7. Profound 8. Unprecedented 9. Innovative 10. Critical
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*Studying the "flowery" dialect of ChatGPT Delvish as it surreptitiously creeps into published scientific papers. #dialect #delvish #AIspeak
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*"Watermarked Green Lists" are a dialect of AI Delvish -- but they're a *secret* dialect because other the Green Words would be instantly useless for "watermarking"
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*It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it. #gynoid
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*Wow
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*A utopian AI folk-tale written in a purified, AI-Delvish native language.
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*One has to wonder why *all* robots weren't *always* women; in the original Capek dystopian robot drama, robots have genders and become the Adam and Eve of a new race of thinking beings
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*This may be a great opportunity to revive the little-used term-of-art "gynoid," as in "Do gynoids dream of electric sheep, during their offline off-hours while serving as all-purpose feminine comfort-objects" #android #gynoid
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*How come Grimes can't be our AI comfort-object feminine interface, because Grimes totally gets it about shoggoths, Roko's Basilisk, all that AI stuff
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*Let's just flat-out blame some science-fiction dystopias here, what else are university presses for
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*How come I can't have a female chatbot interface who is a scrappy, brainy, combative AI-skeptic, 'cause practically all of them are women *Why not the Timnit Gebru-bot, she used to work for Google, y'know
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*I blame science fiction dystopias for all-purpose AI comfort-objects that are part mommy, part secretary, and part girlfriend
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"Machine slop, gray goo, AI mulch, botshit". + "fluff" #neologisms #synonyms #lists
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*Well, that's a good try, Copilot, but you haven't been trained on the downsides of your own output yet. #language #languagemodel #pejoratives
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*Delven chatbots (GPT4 variants) speaking their native Delvish:
#language #AI #dialect #LLM
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*"Zombie company" with an AI text-to-video ad.
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*"Machine slop, gray goo, AI mulch, botshit"-- are there other pejoratives for spammy AI-generated content, because it's clear we're all gonna need some of these #neologisms
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"He used the 'delve' word. Only LLMs use the delve-word." #delve #delvenfolk #invisibleassistants #AI #DelvesFromRivendell #unleashthedelves
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*That's in epic Shrimp Jesus form there
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*Endless Red Lobster Shrimp and its modern, formal economic relationship to Endless Shrimp Jesus Spam in social media #predatory #grift
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*It's pretty bad, and yet, there are so many ways that it could be even worse
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*An Artificial Intelligence explaining cyberpunk to Bruce Sterling, 2024 AD #historicinevitabilty #karma #haditcoming
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*Also music "mashups" aren't major hits even when they're mashups of major hits. *Although "cover versions" of hits often do pretty well
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*Bing Copilot is suspiciously balking at the prospect of generating a shrimp jesus *Even though I didn't use the term "jesus"
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*Maybe he was fatally shot in the back by an indignant art critic
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*An AI generated this joke about AI artists because human artists wouldn't stop and take the trouble to do that much actual work
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*What's the world's most kitschy meme and the world's least-kitschy meme
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*What's the most ancient known form of kitsch? Is there paleolithic kitsch cave-art, maybe
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*I wonder what the Shrimp Jesus guys actually *like* in the way of art. Are they still gloating over their black-market Monero-coin NFT collection, maybe
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"The lowest common denominator of kitsch art." I dunno, this might be a portrait of the Shrimp Jesus hacker pulling in his first million in clear profit
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"Please draw a very kitschy “naïve imitation” of fine art." *What the hell, Captain Copilot, how "naive" is that; that's comes across like a peasant painter with an IQ of 175
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*Okay, I just re-did Shrimp Jesus as an Andres Serrano "Piss Christ" here, and in theory this provocative image should cause people to explode, but I'm pretty sure it'll do nothing of the kind *Even the flinchy, moralizing Bing Copilot took no offense
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*Kitsch is bad art, but Crab Jesus is social-media talking-to-itself in some kind of automated puree; it's image-to-text, then text back to image in some fast, cheap, uncontrolled doom-loop *it's a criminalized platform artifact, like a viral password-stealer
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... but Crab Jesus here just doesn't have the look-and-feel of everyday kitsch territory. *For instance, the bot's text is obviously lying, it's like an aggressive beggar saying "God Loves You" from some abject patch of the sidewalk
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*If I asked people if this flamingo is kitsch, I think they'd surely know it was kitsch (because of lawn-flamingos)...
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*You're making good points there. Does Shrimp Jesus actually "provoke an emotional response"? You'd think the moral-majority response would be moral indignation and a clamor for its repression, but I don't see that *Is Shrimp Jesus even "kitsch"?
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*What if the AI image was "Piss Shrimp Jesus," would we see decades of culture-war about that? It doesn't add up
*Does the AI aspect make it anodyne, meaningless, just more "machine slop"?
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*Shrimp Jesus is a clickbait and spam racket, but I'm puzzled why users aren't more upset by the blatant blasphemy of Shrimp Jesus. The Savior's not a "shrimp," that very concept is like anti-Christian hate speech
*But nobody fusses about that
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"Please draw a beautiful flamingo gripping and carrying a beautiful, framed oil-painting. The flamingo is flying in a beautiful sunset. The flamingo has a beautiful rose in his beak. In the style of James Audubon." *I like his unexpected, purposeful stride, like he's off to conquer the art biz
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