A Glimpse of the Future
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I asked ChatGPT to "Write a story in the style of Thomas Ligotti", and this is what it came up with:
So there you go, while we wait for new material from Ligotti we can read stories about Jack and the True Nature of Reality.
The city was a place of decay and despair, where the streets were filled with the stench of rotting garbage and the air was thick with the smoke of burning buildings. The people who lived there were trapped in a never-ending cycle of poverty and misery, struggling to survive in a world that seemed to offer them no hope.
One of these people was a man named Jack, who had lost everything he had ever loved to the harsh realities of life in the city. He had no family, no friends, no home, and no future. All he had was his own broken body and a desperate need to escape from the hellish existence he had been condemned to.
As Jack wandered the streets, his mind filled with dark thoughts and his heart heavy with despair, he came across a strange figure standing in the shadows. The figure was a man dressed in all black, with a pale face and cold, dead eyes that seemed to see right through him.
Without a word, the man handed Jack a small, ornately decorated book, and then vanished into the darkness. Jack took the book, unsure of what it was or what it meant, but feeling a strange sense of hope and purpose as he held it in his hands.
As he opened the pages and began to read, he was filled with a sense of awe and wonder, as if the words on the page were unlocking some deep, hidden part of his soul. And as he read on, he began to feel a strange, creeping sense of dread and horror, as if the very darkness of his own thoughts was coming to life before his eyes.
In the end, Jack was left with a single, haunting question: what is the true nature of reality, and what lies beyond the veil of our own perceptions?
One of these people was a man named Jack, who had lost everything he had ever loved to the harsh realities of life in the city. He had no family, no friends, no home, and no future. All he had was his own broken body and a desperate need to escape from the hellish existence he had been condemned to.
As Jack wandered the streets, his mind filled with dark thoughts and his heart heavy with despair, he came across a strange figure standing in the shadows. The figure was a man dressed in all black, with a pale face and cold, dead eyes that seemed to see right through him.
Without a word, the man handed Jack a small, ornately decorated book, and then vanished into the darkness. Jack took the book, unsure of what it was or what it meant, but feeling a strange sense of hope and purpose as he held it in his hands.
As he opened the pages and began to read, he was filled with a sense of awe and wonder, as if the words on the page were unlocking some deep, hidden part of his soul. And as he read on, he began to feel a strange, creeping sense of dread and horror, as if the very darkness of his own thoughts was coming to life before his eyes.
In the end, Jack was left with a single, haunting question: what is the true nature of reality, and what lies beyond the veil of our own perceptions?
So there you go, while we wait for new material from Ligotti we can read stories about Jack and the True Nature of Reality.
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bendk
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Brutal comedy? I love it.
ToALonelyPeace
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I can think of numerous ways this can be used as a torture device
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I can think of numerous ways this can be used as a torture device
Fortunately, we don't do that in the U.S. We teach other countries how to do it. We stick to "enhanced interrogation techniques."
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I only watched the first six minutes. I think they only talked to one scientist?
Everyone else was a "tech journalist" or some kind of business bro. They spit out the usual anodyne talking points in jargon-heavy sound bites.
I laughed when the British reporter talked about how students will use this technology for "homework management".
I'm not a Neo-Luddite. I love learning about technology, but as always, this shit is in the wrong hands - big corporations and the military-industrial complex.
Everyone else was a "tech journalist" or some kind of business bro. They spit out the usual anodyne talking points in jargon-heavy sound bites.
I laughed when the British reporter talked about how students will use this technology for "homework management".
I'm not a Neo-Luddite. I love learning about technology, but as always, this shit is in the wrong hands - big corporations and the military-industrial complex.
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Well, it is a video from the Forbes channel. I do believe it will be a paradigm shift. Bill Gates feels the same way, that's why he sunk 10 billion dollars into Open AI. I've already toyed with ChatGPT. It is better than Google search. I haven't yet tried the text-to-image sites, but I did download Midjourney's Discord server.
That the tech is in the wrong hands is always problematic. They make some good points later in the video. I've watched it a couple times. I skip the 8-10 minutes section.
That the tech is in the wrong hands is always problematic. They make some good points later in the video. I've watched it a couple times. I skip the 8-10 minutes section.
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Courtesy of ChatGPT
Prompt: "Write a poem with the ideas of Thomas Ligotti in the manner of Dr. Seuss"
(With the exception of the word 'naughty'- which is an inaccuracy- I love this poem.)
In a world of darkness and dread, Where the living envy the dead,
There lived a man named Thomas Ligotti, Whose stories were dark and quite naughty.
He wrote of things that made us shiver, Of creatures that made our bones quiver,
Of places where the sun never shone, And of people who were forever alone.
But in this world of gloom and despair, There was a man who didn’t care,
A man named Dr. Seuss, Whose rhymes were always loose.
So he took Ligotti’s tales of woe, And turned them into something new,
With rhymes that were silly and fun, And characters that danced in the sun.
And so we have a tale to tell, Of two writers who knew their spell,
One who wrote of darkness and dread, And one who turned it on its head.
So if you’re feeling down and blue, Just remember this tale so true,
That even in the darkest night, There’s always a bit of light.
Prompt: "Write a poem with the ideas of Thomas Ligotti in the manner of Dr. Seuss"
(With the exception of the word 'naughty'- which is an inaccuracy- I love this poem.)
In a world of darkness and dread, Where the living envy the dead,
There lived a man named Thomas Ligotti, Whose stories were dark and quite naughty.
He wrote of things that made us shiver, Of creatures that made our bones quiver,
Of places where the sun never shone, And of people who were forever alone.
But in this world of gloom and despair, There was a man who didn’t care,
A man named Dr. Seuss, Whose rhymes were always loose.
So he took Ligotti’s tales of woe, And turned them into something new,
With rhymes that were silly and fun, And characters that danced in the sun.
And so we have a tale to tell, Of two writers who knew their spell,
One who wrote of darkness and dread, And one who turned it on its head.
So if you’re feeling down and blue, Just remember this tale so true,
That even in the darkest night, There’s always a bit of light.
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Gnosticangel
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Courtesy of ChatGPT: Prompt: "Write a poem with the ideas of Thomas Ligotti in the manner of Dr. Seuss"
That is simultaneously an excellent, humorous dark poem and a source of fear in itself. The implications for AI mimicking (or perhaps "seizing?") human consciousness in the very near future are terrifying.
That is simultaneously an excellent, humorous dark poem and a source of fear in itself. The implications for AI mimicking (or perhaps "seizing?") human consciousness in the very near future are terrifying.
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After you play with it for a while you start to see patterns that resemble the repetitive nature of a computer program rather than a person, like the fact that it tends to end everything on a positive note.
That could be because there is the general tendency for happy endings in the writing that it was trained on, or because of the human intervention applied to prevent it from saying anything too outlandish, or both.