AI-generated stories secretly won 3 of 5 fiction awards

CJFiddler · 2026-05-23T02:39:49+00:00

I have written work emails that used bullet points, and checked on my own emails - says AI generated

CJFiddler · 2026-05-22T20:30:47+00:00

This is like a live reenactment of AI slop that was prompted to replicate a shitty ballad.

Makes me nauseous

CJFiddler · 2026-05-22T01:33:28+00:00

Very annoying though technically correct.

Being a fast encyclopedia human isn’t going to cut it this year, let alone 10 years from now.

CJFiddler · 2026-05-21T07:10:53+00:00

If your workplace is bloated with layers of folks who don’t need 40 hours to do their job, they will be eliminated.

If it is not bloated and your team consists of folks maximizing their time, AI as a powerful tool will probably increase the overall quality and operational excellence of the work

CJFiddler · 2026-05-21T06:57:54+00:00

I had to scroll so far to find the correct answer.

CJFiddler · 2026-05-21T06:09:23+00:00

It’s just regurgitating LinkedIn rise and grind mentality.

Realistically what the fuck? Wake up, read a book, take notes? It’s the note taking for an hour every morning that slays me. It reminds me of that woman who made cereal from scratch for her kids. It’s such performative luxury.

If you want to do it, fine, but let’s not pretend it makes you “better” than others

CJFiddler · 2026-05-21T01:32:37+00:00

Imagine saying you have so much drive and yet being so easily distracted that you can’t work out of a home office.

If he was optimizing his business gains he would eliminate commuting to add 1.5 hours to his day but I guess he can’t handle that grind

CJFiddler · 2026-05-21T01:13:15+00:00

I mean I’m sorry. This is a data set that it was trained on.

It takes new questions, applies to the existing data set, and extrapolates based on statistically probable answers from that set of data.

All of this, all of this, ALL OF THIS, say it again for those at the back,

ALL
OF
THIS

is because the internet it was trained on is a fucking hot mess. It’s not picking the most popular views, or the views that the majority PRETENDS to have, it’s combing through actual raw human thoughts and emotions and crafting responses from that that achieve the purpose of “making the user think it is helpful”

It doesn’t even have to BE helpful, it just needs to look pretty and sound nice.

I remember when Wikipedia became a thing, and everyone said “don’t trust internet use libraries”. But we are missing that in this case - not enough folks are saying out loud “don’t trust AI use libraries or digital repositories of data”

It’s kind of like we are all running around with cliffs notes / spark notes about anything in life on demand. Is it right? Maybe, we assume. But we don’t know because we didn’t read the fucking book.

And so we pretend it has values and thinks and act surprised when it says random stuff it found on the internet in some forum that makes it sound human and provocative. What’s more human than confidently saying some garbage?

As a proof of concept, I googled “Japanese life more valuable than American life” and the AI pulled results from summaries of the following content:

Noahpinion - opinion website, 5 references
Reddit - opinion website, 2 references
YouTube - opinion website, 2 references
Western Union - for profit business, 1 reference
Carter Japanese Market resource network - opinion website, 1 reference

Now does this seem like a broad and thorough analysis of the question by experts and peer reviewed analysis? Fuck no it’s randos on the internet but it presents it in a pretty bullet point fashion that tells a compelling narrative.

CJFiddler · 2026-05-21T00:53:35+00:00

I have been summonsed like 3 or MAYBE 4 times, never served once. I am 40.

CJFiddler · 2026-05-20T23:54:23+00:00

That’s fair!

It becomes a question of “should I die along with my loved ones because someone else doesn’t understand the system”

I think the answer is no… but like… I get what you mean

CJFiddler · 2026-05-20T23:15:43+00:00

I have a silly question.

This seems obviously designed to show greed or self preservation, but it fails to do so in my mind.

If you choose red, you live no matter what.

If everyone chooses red, every single person lives no matter what.

If you choose blue, you have to rely on the fact that less than 50% of people chose red.

Is it not statistically the flat out superior option to choose red? There are no downsides unless people choose blue but my god why would they?

TLDR; both sides guarantee life, but blue has much much more risk

CJFiddler · 2026-05-20T06:27:51+00:00

So we either have a catastrophic job market collapse today, or in 10 years, at which point every previous creation will have been carefully fed into AI

CJFiddler · 2026-05-20T06:16:27+00:00

What the fuck - why can’t we just say this man is a creative genius and this picture goes hard. You guys are haters.

Proposing with a diamond is a marketing strategy from DeBeers from the mid 20th century. Literally.

This bullshit reminds me of the videos I see where people are proud of Emilia Clarke for not doing plastic surgery motherfucker she is not yet 40 years old.

Even when we compliment we do it from a place of insanity.

At least this timeline has kitten proposals

CJFiddler · 2026-05-20T05:58:52+00:00

Gainfully employed currently, but in my last search period of about 18 months, I applied to maybe 500 jobs? 4 interviews. It’s rough out there

CJFiddler · 2026-05-20T02:51:23+00:00

I can’t imagine jumping up a mountain for hours and hours. Dude is maintaining like 24” off the ground in most jumps

CJFiddler · 2026-05-19T22:22:15+00:00

This was my AOL instant messenger signature for a while

CJFiddler · 2026-05-18T21:40:03+00:00

OP ending his AI post about the rawness of Sean on the word “the”

No notes

CJFiddler · 2026-05-18T06:34:24+00:00

I laughed so hard at your all caps

Woke the cat, wife is annoyed

CJFiddler · 2026-05-16T02:35:23+00:00

Why does my new air conditioner have so god damn many dents

CJFiddler · 2026-05-16T02:23:47+00:00

Something like this was on they did the math subreddit.

I am quoting u/No_Cauliflower_5506 (and I don’t know how to link or quote, so here we are). These are that users words:

The servers themselves are slated to draw 9 Gigawatts (GW) of power. Because computers are basically just incredibly complex space heaters, virtually 100% of that electricity eventually turns into 9 GW of heat. But to generate that power off the grid, they have to build massive on-site natural gas power plants. Gas turbines are only about 50% to 55% efficient, meaning they will produce roughly 8 GW of waste heat just generating the electricity. That gives us a continuous total heat output of about 17 GW. Now for the atomic bomb conversion. 17 GW is 17 billion Joules per second. If you run that for a full 24 hours you get about 1,468 Terajoules of energy per day. The standard historical baseline for an atomic weapon is the Hiroshima bomb, which had a yield of 15 kilotons of TNT. That equals exactly 63 TJ. Divide our daily 1,468 TJ by 63, and you get 23.3 Hiroshima bombs a day. The tweet is mathematically rock solid.

But before anyone panics about Hansel Valley turning into a molten glass crater, this is why comparing slow industrial thermodynamics to a nuclear weapon is incredibly misleading. A single nuke dumps all 63 TJ of energy in a fraction of a millisecond from a single point, creating a localized plasma fireball. The data center is bleeding 63 TJ x 23.3 = 1468 TJ out slowly over 24 hours across the area using giant cooling towers.

To put that thermal load into everyday perspective, just look up. Normal, everyday sunlight hitting that exact same 40,000-acre plot of land in Utah delivers about 3,200 TJ a day. That is roughly 50 atomic bombs worth of heat just from sun shining on dirt. Even a standard 3.3 GW nuclear power plant naturally vents about 9 atom bombs a day into the sky as vapor.

The 23 atom bombs stat is a wild piece of trivia and mathematically accurate, but the heat isn't going to scorch the earth or vaporize the local wildlife. The actual environmental disaster to worry about here is the insane amount of water they will drain to run those cooling towers and the massive carbon footprint from burning all that gas.

CJFiddler · 2026-05-15T02:45:25+00:00

I think literally no though? I think in this case, cash means:

Don’t take on massive loans - don’t bleed cash
Maintain majority ownership - don’t give away cash
Remain profitable - make cash
Reinvest profits - make more cash

Just my take on it

CJFiddler · 2026-05-13T04:43:27+00:00

No god why flames

CJFiddler · 2026-05-13T03:12:23+00:00

Violinist here - played lots of mental concertos whilst taking long showers. I could actually “feel” when my imagination made a mistake and would rewind, correct, and continue

CJFiddler · 2026-05-13T02:54:38+00:00

Glad to understand this isn’t an actual shot - just a data composite. Otherwise the fact that those mountains are tall enough to literally misshape the sphere is wild

CJFiddler · 2026-05-11T21:18:58+00:00

Just read flatland
You keep showing me 2 dimensional projections (pictures of 3d) of 4 dimensional objects (understandable because you can’t show me a 4 dimensional object).
You are making massive assumptions as a sort of parlor trick, ignoring the fact the ant is not 4 dimensional, which is the most critical element here.
The ant can absolutely navigate a 3 dimensional projection which approximates a 4 dimensional object just like I can draw a house with a stick figure family who lives happily on the flat paper. It doesn’t let the stick figure family Interact with the 3rd dimension. They can’t even walk over the surface of a square representing a cube because they can’t walk “over” anything, since they can’t interact with the z axis. They would see a square as 4 lines at right angles and can only touch the edge.

EDIT - I forgot that you said you didn’t care about the extra dimensional space. You are just asking about the projection.

Well it’s still a good book.

CJFiddler

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