contrary to suggestions provided by deterministic algorithms running on way simpler hardware with way tinier resource use I guess?
“You can ask chatgpt how to wipe your ass since you’re unable to think for yourself.”
I have actually seen people in online discussions quoting chatgpt about this topic.
We deserve collapse
Wait is there content to discuss about this? I must know, maybe I’ve been inefficient my whole life
ChatGPT is clearly the world’s leading expert in ass-wiping, despite not having one.
I’ve seen threads like “Fellas, is it gay to wipe your ass?” So apparently it’s a thing…
I could also see a serious discussion on how to manage chronic seepage but so far the internet doesn’t seem mature enough to handle that so…
I feel like the intent is to get roasted, not actual recommendations.
That’s uh, not how you fill a bookshelf
“Ceci n’est pas un livre”
It is if you only read for the purpose of being able to say that you read
Performative bookcasing.
Also, I’ve read “What If.” It’s pretty good.
Finally got my hands on How To and Thing Explainer the other day. Munroe is great
I had to fight the urge to hold my finger on the pictures to make the mouseover text appear.
You can tell she outsources all of her brain activity to ChatGPT just from her not questioning the placement of books.
What kind of person puts a recipe book on a bookshelf in the first place. Or a coffee table book? Can you imagine asking a friend for book recommendations and they suggest a cookbook? What about an interior design look book?
I’m not saying a friend should never suggest these kinds of books, but if I asked a friend to “fill my bookshelf” and they suggested those I would be confused. Also, steal like an artist being present is the ultimate irony.
“Now please read the books and tell me what I would have experienced reading them”
Oh wow, that’s so cool. Definitely worth the $2 trillion spent on AI so far.
Also the knock off effects like computer parts quadrupling in price, the ecological damage, fucking over local power grids, and speed running propaganda.
I’ve seen billboards saying “many new datacenters are designed to reuse water” like… OK? that’s ONE aspect of it. you’re still installing natural gas turbines and diesel generators and taking enormous amounts of electricity…
People never seem to understand that sometimes, the greenest thing you can do is NOTHING. Whodathunkit?
Not to mention ‘many’ is vague and probably doesn’t apply to the one who paid for the billboard or it would say which one. It is like having a sign that says ‘many chefs wash their hands’.
Cool, but the one roght here is the most important one to me at this moment.
“many”
Don’t forget further entrenchment of state and corporate power over our lives!
Don’t we already have perfectly good recommendation algorithms? Not to mention the more social alternative of asking for recommendations…
True. So what does your AI companion recommend I read, then?
AI companion? I’m confused. I meant stuff like “recommended based on stuff you read” websites have.
I mean tbf vague recommendations aren’t a librarian’s job, or at least I’m not sure how going to a librarian and asking “recommend me books” (instead of "help me learn more about this thing) would be productive for either party. The real solutions here is knowing people who read a lot, but asking AI seems to be exactly the kind of thing someone would do because they don’t know people like that.
I’m not sure how going to a librarian and asking “recommend me books” (instead of "help me learn more about this thing)
“Hey so I like <book1>, <book2>, and <book3>, and I’m looking for more books to read in <genre1> or <genre2> or <genre3>, do you have any recommendations?”
Wait you can just do that in public libraries? TIL.
The Brooklyn public library has a form where you can write about whatever you want, and a real human librarian will recommend books for you based on it. It was pretty good when I used it.
I imagine other libraries have similar.
But does it work with erotica?
I don’t see why not, but I didn’t try that specific genre.
You don’t think librarians are into erotica 🤨
I strongly suspect you are wrong
Librarians are people who read a lot. They genuinely enjoy being able to talk about their area of expertise.
They looooooooove when you do that
“Shhhh…🤫”
I don’t like talking to people in the first place and you want me to go to one of my few safe spaces and violate its sanctity?
Pro tip: use a quiet conversational register of voice as opposed to screaming at the top of your lungs. Librarians don’t mind the former at all.
That’s still talking to people.
God fucking forbid.
I’m borderline antisocial but you’re goddamned right I’d pick my ass up and go talk to an actual human being for 30 minutes about something I’m interested in because I’d much rather do that than use a fucking clanker.
Wow! I guess AI was worth all that water!
…seriously, what’s the point of making it an image aside from posting a (probably unpaid!) ad on Twitter?
Absolutely devastating to have “Extremely Online” on the list.
This is less meaningful than filling bookshelves in Skyrim.
Hey chatgpt, make me an image of a bookshelf with 15 copies of The Lusty Argonian Maid
Both volumes.
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An orbital ring or a machine that can generate generic book covers. Hmmm.
Also, most books are not presented on bookshelves like that. Spine out, usually.
And like, why have to take a picture of an empty bookshelf? Just have your slop machine generate the shelf too
Or literally just ask for a bulleted list…
(You know, assuming one isn’t already capable of finding books to read for oneself, looking at human-generated recommended reading lists, or asking real people for recommendations)
But then how could they show off to their ‘friends’ how special their AI is?!
Right, their “friends” a.k.a. AI xitter bots
A publishing executive just creamed his pants and just fired his whole marketing and sales staff to buy promotions from chatgpt. OpenAI executives cream their pants now it’s confirmed they control what people buy and read from now on.
Already there with booktok
OK, but literally why would you do that? Genuinely baffled. Like, is this someone that doesn’t read trying to convince others (or themselves?) that they’re avid readers or something?
To appear more interesting on Teams
Yeah, nobody who does this is actually going to read the books. This way they can Post It On Their Socials and say: “See? These are the books I really oughta read.”
The first thing I thought was “this is the kind of person to put books on their shelves solely to appear intellectual”
