Notices by Farbs (farbs@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica It's weird that they choose to train it on narration instead of conversation. I guess the former is easier to collect, and perhaps better matches the tone of the text output.

@foone I (15 years ago, hopelessly naïve) made a website that's basically an enormous pixel art toilet wall, with public access.

I haven't carefully reviewed all 9,000 interlinked pages but there's gotta be some transgender werewolf erotica in there somewhere.

@foone I accidentally did the latter but my hosting provider got upset and made me do the former :(

@arstechnica Okay what monster did that to an Amiga 500.

@foone I refuse to believe that Foone Turing doesn't regularly use a ball mouse.

@ifixcoinops @foone How to make a washing machine last: Call this guy.

His name is Warren, and he's a dead set legend.

(Every little box is a whitegoods appliance, and last time I checked they were stacked two high)

@arstechnica @KyleOrl I think what's most interesting about the weird results is how succinctly they demonstrate that google is sometimes just straight up republishing unique, original content without consent.

@arstechnica I was gonna argue that that's not what Gamification means, but then I realised rebranding unpleasant things in the language of games is always what it meant.

@cathos @foone @mcc
/me makes a note...

@arstechnica this is great! Now they just need to drop the app.

@arstechnica @KyleOrl did Craig pause awkwardly and put on a different voice every time he inserted your name into the script? I really hope so. That would have made my day.