Too long to say cognitive biases. Social engineering, marketing, politics, plenty of exploiting of that in the wild for thousands of years, but when studying that became a science, well, we have the current world.
I wrote the post and have been working in and researching in the space for a decade and truly did spend a decade making a movie about this because I think it's an existential threat to humanity, but sure.
BLIT was awesome. Reread it recently after watching the Black Mirror Playthings episode on it most recently.
I don't really use a ChatGPT subscription so I have Claude Code create a few versions of an image in different styles. I mentioned it especially because evolving from prompting an image to automated prompting loops matches some of the recent changes that we've been talking about.
I wrote the article, I really have been working and researching in the space for a decade and can share similar articles published online long before LLMs.
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https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
Or my favorite of his basilisk stories, different kinds of darkness: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...
BLIT was awesome. Reread it recently after watching the Black Mirror Playthings episode on it most recently.
> The Glasswing Brain | Dall-E prompted by Claude Opus
Pathetic levels of slop when you cannot even write your own prompts.
I don't really use a ChatGPT subscription so I have Claude Code create a few versions of an image in different styles. I mentioned it especially because evolving from prompting an image to automated prompting loops matches some of the recent changes that we've been talking about.
I wrote the article, I really have been working and researching in the space for a decade and can share similar articles published online long before LLMs.