It's just that we don't live in that world, and we never will because the window where maybe LLMs could have been recouped as a niche art tool has passed.
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i’ve seen multiple procgen artists say that the genAI boom has killed their enthusiasm for the field, and it just makes me sad. interesting work is still happening, it’s just drowned out by inane marketing stuff.
aug 3, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
(also a little confused at markov chains being lumped in here. they’re like the second most anodyne text generation method…)
aug 3, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, no, I just meant to clarify that I used Markovs and LLMs about equally back when I was interested in incorporating this stuff into poetry/performance/collage! It wouldn't have seemed fair to only credit one and not the other
aug 3, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I think Markov text is, like, morally fine, but I worry that at the present moment incorporating any kind of machine generated text into anything could create a problem where the piece becomes primarily about explaining/defending that use to an audience, and I'm not that kind of a conceptual artist!
aug 3, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
fair enough! i like doing that kind of stuff, but i also enjoy playing the gadfly. to each their own.
aug 3, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm still hopeful that time will come when they have faded from general usage. Like audiophiles harvesting components from tube radios to get specific effects.
aug 3, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
at first I was like "ugh, we'll have to wait like a hundred years," but then I remembered how fast technology moves in the 21st century! we might only have to wait 25
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