25 pointsby farlight7 hours ago3 comments
  • jaggederest2 hours ago
    We used to use markov chain generators of various types to spit out absolute insanity, in the early years of the century, and this is all I ever wanted from LLMs. I bet if you used a slightly older model for your text generation, you'd get really clean output. Sonnet 4.whatever, I think, actually does a superb job at text generation, despite it being only an ok coding model.
    • apian hour ago
      Extremely small or very heavily quantized LLMs can generate hilarious results. You can also get wild shit if you dial temperature really high.
      • jaggederestan hour ago
        1 or 2 bit quants are nice and quick too, added bonus to the absurdity and surrealism. Weaponized dadaism at light speed.
  • ipnon2 hours ago
    I used to find internet slang very piercing and illuminating. I felt I was able to describe certain things which were difficult or impossible to convey with AFK language. But now that this way of speaking has become normalized outside of the internet, I find it’s lost this piercing quality, and just makes me confused. If only this cloud in the sky would move away!
  • jackyinger2 hours ago
    What even is the point of posting something like this? No serious person is going to be impressed. Assuming a human was involved they must be deep in AI induced psychosis.

    Man, HN used to have some really good stuff. Now it’s mostly AI slop.

    • jackyinger2 hours ago
      Heck with perpetual September, we’re entering perpetual mid-2020’s
      • hollowturtle2 hours ago
        You got my attention could u argument more?
        • jaggederestan hour ago
          Every day thousands of people discover that LLMs don't just let you generate mediocre draft memos, they let you write the heinlein x joyce vampire romance in space ireland of your dreams, as some of us did in the mid '20s. Also, I'm officially retracting the first two digits of the millenium unilaterally.
    • hollowturtle2 hours ago
      Same feeling, so sick and disillusioned about the future