Robots posing with some butter

January 14, 2023 6:46 PM

Whenever one of these models is upgraded, it becomes less good. Janelle Shane asks software to create novelty sock ideas. Various surreal designs result. ChatGPT appears to like alliteration.

Janelle Shane previously.

posted by doctornemo (10 comments total)

Whimsy will soon be passé. Too bad; it was nice. I wish I'd appreciated it more.
posted by amtho at 6:50 PM on January 14, 2023 [3 favorites]

I adore the silly lower-parameter models, but for GPT-3 you just have to find the right prompt.

"List of 10 novelty sock patterns in the style of Dril tweets"

1. Lookin Sharp™ Tartan Socks: 'Im lookin sharp in mah new tartan socks, ye cannae say otherwise tho.'
2. President Dril Socks: 'Interviewer: Sir, I'm just curious but why are your socks so outlandish
Me: Thank u for ur interview but i run a country now so this is the pres dril sock model'
3. Daily Checklist Socks: 'Call mom ✔️
Check on bro ✔️
Put on daily checklist socks ✔️'
4. Swagger Supreme™ Logo Socks: 'u cant be BIG SWAGGER SUPREME without these kickass linklogo socks'
5. Blue Slime Socks: 'The doctor says my ankle slime level is too high so im gonna slip into some blue slime socks to keep it stable'
6. Tallboy Logo Socks: 'these tallboy logo socks are aiding me in my quest to appear 2 feet taller than i am every waking day'
7. 3 Cheeses Socks: 'Swear 2 GOD if u dont treat these 3 cheeses socks with the respect they DEEserve then thatll be it fer ya pal.'

posted by credulous at 7:38 PM on January 14, 2023 [14 favorites]

I adore the silly lower-parameter models, but for GPT-3 you just have to find the right prompt.

So it's not just that the chatbots are getting better, we humans are getting worse.
posted by Literaryhero at 7:43 PM on January 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

Robots posing with some butter

Stupid AI, that's passing, not posing!
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:20 PM on January 14, 2023

we humans are getting worse.

More like settled into a comfortable local minima.
posted by pwnguin at 8:20 PM on January 14, 2023 [5 favorites]

it's not just that the chatbots are getting better, we humans are getting worse

I daresay we're getting worse because the bots are getting better.

I've been watching technology evolve since I was a child, and the most consistent theme has been conveniences taking less and less time to become generally thought of as necessities.

The dire warning in WALL-E wasn't the massive piles of garbage. It was the hoverchairs.
posted by flabdablet at 8:48 PM on January 14, 2023 [6 favorites]

I daresay we're getting worse because the bots are getting better.

I try to avoid 'kids these days', or 'back in my day' thoughts as much as possible (harder and harder as I get older, of course), but this is a pretty interesting (and scary) theory.
posted by Literaryhero at 5:53 AM on January 15, 2023

I daresay we're getting worse because the bots are getting better.

Similarly echoed in The Matrix: "I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about."
posted by notoriety public at 7:58 AM on January 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

Stick some crayons up it's nose.
posted by neonamber at 10:53 PM on January 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

Some kind of replica of The Lord of the Rings party balloon, with rainbow balls, pink hoses, and blood in tributes to the Great Hair String of Friendship

This is the most spectacularly deranged epic of a sock I've heard of so far

“As above, so below” with cats on the moon

ah shit now i have to pay an AI fourteen dollars for this pair of socks immediately
posted by FatherDagon at 8:10 AM on January 17, 2023 [1 favorite]