Indignity Vol. 4, No. 129, FAN SERVICE JOURNALISM DEP'T.: What Retread Marvel Actor Should Play the Best Supervillain of All? www.indignity.net/doom-loop/
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 129
Poetry is weirdly prominent in LLM conversations. But what do models really "know" about poetry? We tested how well LLMs can recognize 20+ poetic forms in English & probed major pretraining datasets to see which poems might be memorized. New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18906
Hacks is a great comedy series that is going to lose Best Comedy to a drama (The Bear) that evades classification as a drama because it would lose Best Drama to Shōgun, a limited series that won't compete for Best Limited Series so that Fargo, a comedy series, has a chance there. Enjoy the Emmys!
This is a great article pushing back on the trendy “misinformation panic is over” frame/argument. Most interestingly, it argues the recent Nature piece about elites and traditional media being more influential than social media overlooks the influence of social media on elites and traditional media.
I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder... For @futurism.bsky.socialfuturism.com/advon-ai-con...
Ever stood in front of a historical markers and wondered, “Is this true?” Well, so did we. We spent a year analyzing the nation’s markers and found stories that were sometimes delightful, sometimes humorous, and sometimes completely wrong.
The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
same thought, I also think the structure of only connect makes it both harder to find connections and easier to reject spurious connections. sometimes the nyt's decisions on what items so not connect is very "no that's not what we want, we want a different one"
