Someone gave an AI a 100 page pdf containing nothing the words “poop” and “fart” repeated over and over again and this is the result.
The proponents of AI claim this type of thing shows that we need to redefine ourselves as a species. Bullshit! I pray it a wakeup call, it’s time to get real.
Anyone willing to waste serious amounts of their time discussing the hidden meaning or otherwise in the poop/fart ‘document’ needs to redefine themselves, that’s for sure. But to suggest our whole species needs to redefine is just vapid posturing.
It’s just ‘monkey and typewriter’ time again.
The ‘document’ is, absolutely, just shit and hot air. 
And it’s vastly inferior to any of the short-lived and ultimately futile forms of 'stunt 'poetry or art which have appeared over the years.
This is of course just my opinion. But I have a life to lead and I’ve already wasted more that enough time on this farrago of foolishness.
I gave up listening after three minutes, which, probably not coincidentally, is the average amount of time the self-employed person will allow an intruder into their working life to either make their point or get out.
Gyppo
And. . . AI is a vehicle to move us to the more real? I have a hard time agreeing with that, in every sense but one. It has been said that what is more real is that which is left when the grid goes down. AI can certainly be envisioned as an instrument which may ultimately bring down the grid. It will seem at first that electricity is out in your part of town. And there will never be explanations. That feels pretty real. In the meantime, enjoy the end-stage art. 
No, I think you misunderstand my point. It’s full of it. The analysis generated by the AI was vapid and empty and sounded EXACTLY like what you would read or hear in a ton of supposedly reputable sources and it’s the exact type of stuff that’s passed for criticism for years.
What I meant by “getting real” is that we need to get stop with the jargon and pseudo intellectual nonsense and be willing to call bullshit. If not, we are in trouble.
I know a little about AI. t’s incredible technology, but it’s anything but intelligent. It’s fast and depending on the model has almost instant access to unlimited data and is capable of recognizing patterns in astonishing ways, but it’s not smart, but it looks it. Especially to the lazy of thought. Which, let’s face it, is a lot of folks.
That’s why this video scares me. A stupid machine was able to concoct a ‘review’ that if you told me was made by a MFA’s or writers for any given Lit journal, I’d believe it. This is not praise of the machine, but a condemnation of the state of the arts.
I misunderstood the post—I did not realize the video was AI generated. The clue for me should have been the mispronunciation of “Dada”. Your point is well made.
Marc,
You’ve made your point The AI has learned from the screeds of pseudo-intellectual waffle which is already out there.
As the early computer folks used to say, when the machine produced something nonsensical. A computer is only as good as its input. Insufficient or incorrect data produces rubbish.
The old boys had a term for it.
GIGO. Garbage In - Garbage Out.
My Uncle, who was in on the fairly early days of computing, (back in the punched paper tape days), said they once challenged a computer to explain the meaning of the phrase ‘out of sight, out of mind.’
After a while it printed out ‘Invisible Idiot’.
I’ve always challenged the arrogant assumption , reiterated in that video, that people need to be forced to think outside their normal parameters. For most ‘creative types’ its more often a case of being forced to think ‘normally’ when dealing with everyday tasks and non-creative folks.
Gyppo
Still here. Yeah, AI should be called OI - Organized Information - I have a friend who works online in AI for an American company. She spends hours reformulating available online information into complex questions to try and defeat the AI model, which seldom happens. Something like that but more complicated.
My concern with AI is that it becomes an electronic bureaucracy responding to preset parameters and totally deaf to any appeals for humanity or mercy…
Sorry, Mr Smith, you may not spend any more time online this month as you have exceeded the number of hours as recommended by our health care professionals.
You have exceeded your electricity/meat/ gas allowance.
Your carbon footprint is too large, two of your family members need to report for euthanasia.
If flying killer robots are needed to hunt down your two relatives, the cost of the arrest and roadside execution will be for your account.
Welcome to your fascist technocracy.
AI says to have a nice day.
Hey Mark,
Hope you’re doing well. Yep, that’s my fear also. To quote number 6 from the Prisoner, “I am not a number. I am a free man!”.
The danger is that there are probably enough disenchanted people around who would rather be a number. They’re so fed up with politicians letting them down that they think putting a computer - without the human weaknesses and foibles - in charge would be better.
These are the same kind of folks who used to claim that if extra-terrestrials took over they’d run this planet better than we can.
In short, they like to be told what to think.
If you say to them that anyone who has had computer crash, or been given grief by online banking failing them at just the wrong time knows better, they have an answer for that as well.
“Yes, but… Once the new system’s working properly everything will be great.”
And as my Gran used to say, when some persistent ‘iffer’ finally tripped her over into vulgarity, “Yeah… And if my Aunt had balls she’d be my Uncle.”
And my Yorkshire/Dutch Great Gran would say, to people who got carried away with bullshit, “There’s a difference tha knows.”
When asked what that little pearl of wisdom meant, she’d reply, “Between lying and splitting your arse.”
Gyppo