the conclusion to my third grader’s essay on the moon
Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver
one of the most exciting parts of this was trying to arrange image permission for a screenshot from tumblr user "footlongdingledong"
new publication alert: a little commentary I wrote about 🔎 clues 🔎 and the detection of AI-generated material is out in American Ethnologist (paywalled at the moment, but hit me up if you can't access it): doi.org/10.1111/amet...
Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver
The nice thing about context is that everyone has it… in bed!
is the implication here that an LLM has some intrinsic tendency toward the "—[conjunction]" structure, or that this is actually common even prior to 1900?
related question: is dungeon crawler carl also this kind of thing, or does it just look like it from the outside
“We choose to not go to the moon… because it is hard.”
this is actually part of a longstanding vendetta against the moon: she used to get mad in the car because the moon would follow her outside the window no matter how far we drove
Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver
thanks to my habit of ad libbing all in-class examples, I ended up explaining the concept of dividuality with reference to the idea that someone may be a different person “in the streets” vs “in the sheets”
