Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list

(charlesleifer.com)

38 points | by farlight 10 hours ago

6 comments

  • jaggederest 5 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.

    • cleifer 3 hours ago

      Author here. Surprised to see this posted on HN. we had a Markov chain irc bot who was quite a jokester

      https://charlesleifer.com/blog/building-markov-chain-irc-bot...

      • api 4 hours ago

        Extremely small or very heavily quantized LLMs can generate hilarious results. You can also get wild shit if you dial temperature really high.

        • jaggederest 4 hours ago

          1 or 2 bit quants are nice and quick too, added bonus to the absurdity and surrealism. Weaponized dadaism at light speed.

      • ungreased0675 2 hours ago

        This is the most awesome use of AI I’ve seen in months.

        I’ll be playing with aspirational clownmaxxing web apps myself.

        • Thhe prompts are written very creatively but that level of creativity isn't present in the end result really. Kinda makes me question what the point is

          • LunicLynx 26 minutes ago

            That is exactly the point. It shows that it gives you what it knows, based on certain key words. Here pyside6 + todo list, the rest is just „color“-variation.

          • mdritch 39 minutes ago

            hilarious thank you

            • ipnon 5 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!

              • jackyinger 5 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.

                • jackyinger 5 hours ago

                  Heck with perpetual September, we’re entering perpetual mid-2020’s

                  • hollowturtle 5 hours ago

                    You got my attention could u argument more?

                    • jaggederest 4 hours 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.

                      • NoItsDanger 3 hours ago

                        > I'm officially retracting the first two digits of the millenium

                        What about Y3K??

                        • jaggederest 3 hours ago

                          If I live that long I'll reconsider in '800 or so.

                  • hollowturtle 5 hours ago

                    Same feeling, so sick and disillusioned about the future