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▲ BoredomIsFun 4 hours ago

I'd argue it is the other way around - LLMs are great at pure creativity, creating something that never existed before, but not always at "pulling in information that’s new TO YOU". I use them for entertainment - jokes, short flash fiction etc. and they are excellent at it.

▲benterix 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> I'd argue it is the other way around - LLMs are great at pure creativity

Interesting because pure creativity is the most prominent thing they can't do by design.

▲chrisjj 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I too am entertained by LLMs.

Morbid fascination.

▲Madmallard 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What?

They literally generate stuff that's averages of other stuff.

It's not interesting in the least

▲BoredomIsFun 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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▲gherkinnn 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess you chose a fitting username

▲ccppurcell 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They're terrible at jokes. I bet any good joke they've given you is simply new TO YOU.

▲pcwelder 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I tested this. Out of 200 attempts I got 2 novel jokes that got good amount of upvotes on r/jokes.

Usually commentators say that they have heard so and so version of the joke, or that it's a repeat, but they did not

Both from opus. Sol/astra could not be funny. The versions that worked I had fed top posts from r/jokes as references and gave abstract directions.

However, the core premises were not new even if the construction was. And it's a lot of work to get something useful out.

▲tikotus 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I can believe this is true. It's great at going out there, connecting ransom dots in very clever ways, sometimes stumbling on something actually funny.

I'm curious, did you test with the 200 jokes if it could guess which were the beat ones according to a human audience?

In images, music, games, it usually can't. So the process of validation is offloaded to the audience. I'm very interested in seeing where this takes different platforms. I bet Spotify can pull off such a validation process. Music is passive, tolerating a bad song doesn't require much from you. And they have a massive audience. They can try out AI generated mess with a very low success percentage without saturating their playlists and alienating their users. But can Steam tolerate it? Trying out a game is a much bigger effort than listening to a song picked for you. Customers are already reacting to the number of demos in Steam Next Fest. The saturation point is much lower.

And what about jokes? What happens to r/jokes if even 10 standup comedians are validating 200 jokes per day?

And we see it in software too. QA is already being offloaded to the customer.

I want to see where this goes, even if I don't like it.

But if you find a media where AI can also validate the output instead of having to offload it, that's going to be very valuable!

▲pcwelder 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

It matches your experience. Its judgement on which joke will get laughs is only slightly better than random with lots of false positives.

▲solyin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're not all bad! Comedian Don McMillan has done the user testing to see if AI will put him out of a job.

https://youtu.be/wBdkmI03V6g

▲BoredomIsFun 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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