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Awesome idea! I’m doing this

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You will love this. When A.I. goes high, we go low.

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How many hours have been spent stoned, typing strange things into ChatGPT?

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I've tried to get it to break its own rules. Kind of a fun game to play.

I've also had it rewrite passages of my writing in the style of, say, Hemingway, etc. Pretty interesting result. I think we've discussed it here before, but I wonder what this will mean for the future of creativity.

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Its going to eliminate lower level creative jobs eventually. Like the content and marketing writing I do.

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Not only those jobs. I'm friends with a radiologist who tells me there are AIs learning to do his job.

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I've listened to Duncan Trussell do this 😂

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WE get to decide the way abstract painters got to decide.

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Not to dig, but is there a single sentence you've loved? Yours, others?

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"I love the way you keep the mud alive!"

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What do the stoned ChatGPTers get to decide?

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Oh my god

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Genius, I’m definitely trying this!

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Just give me the credit. I was writing a sentence in French and botched it. The only way I could fix the document was with multiple translations.

It's like how most inventions begin with a mistake. Like Penicillin!

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Again, I feel like we're not giving FINNEGANS' WAKE enough credit, here. He did precisely this. Before our new technologies/technicians/use of techne.

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Wonder how this post would read following this procedure.

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I was rushing. It's more fun if you do it.

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Working on it. I think in my case technology is the overlord. Need to switch to a computer instead of phone probably.

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These little Easter eggs make my entire day. Thank you for this. So so much!

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People already treat me like Im speaking Mandarin anyhow. Especially when I try to be friendly to a stranger in the suburbs.

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Wait. Aren't you in Kentucky?

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Yes. There are suburbs here. But no paved roads, teeth, or shoes.

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I have to try this. It reminds me of when a Woody Allen movie was translated into one language, then another country translated it from the second language instead of the original English, ending up with something that was so different from the original.

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I retain this concept in large emotional attachment

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Interviewer: "Joe, your book became the #1 New York Times best-seller in a matter of days, what is your secret??" Me: "Chuck Palahniuk told me to use Google translate."

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I remember seeing a video a few years back of someone singing ‘Let It Go’ from Frozen with multiple language translation fails.

“And I’ll rise like the break of dawn” became “On the rise for Radiation”

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Yes Sir Yes Sir "Make A.I. my bitch!" Taking notes Sir. Today I found and ordered the-blue-screen-of-death fabric print online today! I know what I'm going to be for Halloween! I can't wait to make a dress! The cutest little blue screen of death you ever did see! It's like the 5th Horsemen of the apocalypse but way more terrifying.

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I love creative outfits like that. And yes, truly scary, I'm disturbed just thinking about it. Gotta go hug my computer now.

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I've already ordered the different fabric swatches and I think Im going to do these contacts: https://cosplay-ftw.com/products/black-sclera-lenses-full-eye-22mm

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Disturbing is good.

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Yes. She's the little sister to the four horseman and she doesn't even have a horse...just a used, stuffed, dirty unicorn from Wal-mart. She doesn't know any better. Her big brother, Pestilence is a piece of shit. She yells in her sweetest voice: "Hey big brothers your moving too fast, wait up! Pestilence pretends he doesn't even hear her but he has a small respect for her ....

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Wow, this English is very good looking. I thought I wrote bad dialogue before. This isn't tennis match dialogue anymore, now it's mud wrestling match dialogue.

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OMFG it works!

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Brilliant

It reminds me of the time someone translated Smash Mouth's "All Star" to Aramaic and then back to English.

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Smash Mouth's 'All Star' lyrics, translated to English from Aramaic by Isaac Mayer:

There was one who said unto me that the universe was going to cause me to tremble,

That I am not the sharpest cutting implement in the storehouse.

She had the appearance unto me as a stupid one,

With her finger and her thumb

In the frame of a Greek gamma upon her forehead.

Behold, the years begin coming, and do not cease from coming.

Fed unto the axioms, and I fell upon the earth and ran.

It was not acceptable if not to live for the sake of pleasurable things.

Your brain increases its wisdom, but your heart increases its stupidity.

A great amount to do, a great amount to see,

Therefore, there is no difficult problem if we take the streets of the backside.

You will not know if you do not go.

You will not shine if you do not glow.

Behold currently! You are entirely a star child! Begin your power! Go! Laugh!

Behold currently! You are a master of the music! Begin your singing! Acquire your wages!

All that sparkles is gold!

Comets alone shatter the frame!

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Behold currently! lmfaooo

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Didn't you mention that book a while back, ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE. I don't know if it's genuine/joke but it has a lot of accidental burnt toungue which is the best.

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