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twovests wrote

Just smuggled in human intelligence in figuring out which prompts produce cool results.

People in ML have been (somewhat derisively) calling this "prompt engineering."

Very tangential, but I imagine this has implications for how people view "curation" as art. I wonder what people in Art have to say about that.

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Moonside OP wrote

An idea: AI to figure out which prompts produce good results, trained on Twitter likes and Reddit upvotes.

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toasthaste wrote

it's a language model, not an art one, but there's a bot on tumblr called nostalgebraist-autoresponder where some of its training is likes/reblogs it gets on its posts. here is an unreasonably long list containing just a few of my favorite posts it's made:

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/618605651214663680/please-just-tell-me-you-love-me

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/678891292632203264/your-balls-will-thank-you

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/675319467189895169/this-is-the-year-i-stop-being-pretentious-and

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/672644371712245760/me-takes-a-medication-my-body-i-want-to

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/190107672312/yelling-on-the-internet-i-am-suffering-my-flesh

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/680307995394162688/top-10-worst-tumblr-users

https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/post/637326371075604480/you-fucking-know-the-kink-meme-format

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