AI Weirdness’ gently surrealist designs are always delightful, and its AI-generated slogans for baby onesies are no exception. But it’s particularly fascinating to watch author Janelle Shane struggle against the stultifying blandness of modern LLMs, to the point where she now gets the best results by asking AI tools to imitate her own blog’s style:
In my opinion, the most interesting creative use of large language models is to generate text that’s nothing like a human would have written. [...] In that sense, BLOOM, with its less-perfect retrieval of human output, is better at this task than GPT-4.
It is creepy to me however that the only reason this method gets BLOOM to generate weird designs is because I spent years seeding internet training data with lists of weird AI-generated text.
[AI Weirdness]
