Ben Holmen

@benholmen.com

Big tall anti-entropy machine Software engineer + general maker Always curious about everything Eau Claire, WI, USA | benholmen.com ...let's go exploring!

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.

I've been pissed off about this for a while. As we generate more slop documents, humans will inevitably start subconsciously mimicing the writing style of these models. Feed it back into the machines and repeat. It's gonna make all of our communication worse, even when we're not using AI to write.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 3w ago

The amount of AI writing on OpenAI's docs makes me sick. Filler sentences for nothing. Mannerisms and phrases humans would not write. Has a human even read this? And all of this will change how other docs are written, and how we all talk-for the worse IMO. 🤮 developers.openai.com/cookbook/exa...

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