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blargey 3 hours ago [-]
Speculated to be responsible for the "AI restaurant-menu gore" that made the rounds on social media. Restaurants AI-generate the entire menu sheet from whole cloth, and while it looks "good" at first with modern image models, repeated edits to the menu text/layout transform the passable food "photos" into trypophobia-inducing horrors. (And somehow they don't notice or care)
Notably, the recent ChatGPT Images 2.5 announcement claimed to address this issue specifically ("multi-turn editing consistency")
GPerson 4 hours ago [-]
Does the same effect happen in a society which rewrites all of its knowledge over and over using AI?
abecedarius 3 hours ago [-]
This reminded me of a story/vignette which my fallible memory tags as by someone like Twain or Poe, about an automatic rewriting machine. It was put to work on the same passage with an ever higher intensity setting, becoming more and more gothic to the point of parody -- iirc the final output was verse including the line "to atoms dash the doubly damned".
Does anyone remember this?
nkurz 2 hours ago [-]
No memory, but searching says it was Lewis Carroll in Photography Extraordinary, published in 1885:
The Milk-and-Water School
Alas! she would not hear my prayer!
Yet it were rash to tear my hair;
Disfigured, I should be less fair.
She was unwise, I may say blind;
Once she was lovingly inclined;
Some circumstance has changed her mind.
The Strong-Minded or Matter-of-Fact School
Well! so my offer was no go!
She might do worse, I told her so;
She was a fool to answer "No".
However, things are as they stood;
Nor would I have her if I could,
For there are plenty more as good.
The Spasmodic or German School
Firebrands and Daggers! hope hath fled!
To atoms dash the doubly dead!
My brain is fire--my heart is lead!
Her soul is flint, and what am I?
Scorch'd by her fierce, relentless eye,
Nothingness is my destiny!
> PS. For obvious reasons, this post will fail Pangram tests.
Actual pangram to me says it's 100% human. Current pangram can flag different passages differently, but these are all flagged human by it, even the LLM written ones.
MarkusQ 6 hours ago [-]
It would have been interesting to try something closer to the movie poster example; say have the AI rewrite the passage with the room toggling between the initial light-mode decor and a dark-mode decor, then back, repeatedly. Or even change the woman's name to "Mrs. Smythe" and back.
layer8 5 hours ago [-]
As the article explains: “[…] In other words, if you instruct a model to change a single word in a paragraph of text, it can almost always handle the task with no collateral damage.“
aetherspawn 3 hours ago [-]
It’s not that bad though. I expected way worse. If Robin Hobbs wrote it, I’d barely lift a brow.
pattt 5 hours ago [-]
It would be interesting how many iterations of LLM-based PR reviews and fixes it takes to turn the code into horror. It’s already started happening.
Muromec 6 hours ago [-]
It doesn't merely stabilise, it almost converges on itself
groby_b 7 hours ago [-]
The existence of attractors (e.g. "stable at iteration 31") for AI models is one of the weirdest things in AI land. They are a wonderful space to explore, fascinating and full of horrors.
Meanwhile, my hat's off to the (currently) last comment on the page: "I like how the shear-sheathed legs still earned their keep — probably load-bearing for Mrs. Regan"
roger_maddux_iv 5 hours ago [-]
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michaelmrose 5 hours ago [-]
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amelius 7 hours ago [-]
The same happens with humans, in e.g. chain stories, cumulative stories, etc.
Not unique to AI.
lowbloodsugar 6 hours ago [-]
>I don’t write about generative AI much. Everyone else does; not much of consequence ever gets said.
Notably, the recent ChatGPT Images 2.5 announcement claimed to address this issue specifically ("multi-turn editing consistency")
Does anyone remember this?
Actual pangram to me says it's 100% human. Current pangram can flag different passages differently, but these are all flagged human by it, even the LLM written ones.
Meanwhile, my hat's off to the (currently) last comment on the page: "I like how the shear-sheathed legs still earned their keep — probably load-bearing for Mrs. Regan"
Not unique to AI.
I see he chose not to break with tradition.