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Study claims that "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably." WaPo, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and others picked it up. Here's my response. (theluddite.org)

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Though wrapped in the aesthetic of science, this paper is a pure expression of the AI hype's ideology, including its reliance on invisible, alienated labor. Its data was manufactured to spec to support the authors' pre-existing beliefs, and its conclusions are nothing but a re-articulation of their arrogance and ideological impoverishment.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shocking that anyone would believe, let alone publish that headline. It comes across as obviously false given the ultra-subjective and human nature of poetry.

Also, I ended up reading about six more blog posts, lol. You're excellent at piecing together many disparate pieces into a cohesive whole, which is well supported by facts. I particularly liked your piece on "capture platforms", and your whole blog was a good reminder regarding the power of the abstractions we make as developers. It's easy to forget the importance of what we do and how it has real effects on the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you so much! That's the nicest thing to read because it's exactly the kind of thought that I hope to inspire in my fellow developers.

Capture Platforms might be my favorite post, though it's hard to compare it with the less serious, more fun kind. It's certainly the one that I worked on the longest. I read at least 2 entire books and countless papers, essays, and book excerpts in the process of making it.