Then I came across an interview with this guy who has been developing hisJabberwacky program for a few years. I was excited to read that "With a base of 10m interactions, Jabberwacky will appear human to most people most of the time."
I gave it a go. You can correct its responses with better ones if you like, which is what I did with the first one (originally it was "Where are you taking me away to?", which was quite nice, in retrospect).
User: How do you get from tamworth to kilmarnock? How do you get from tamworth to kilmarnock? .
Jabberwacky (Corrected): Where on Earth is Tamworth?
User: Somewhere in the Midlands. It doesn't matter.
Jabberwacky: Well, even being from somewhere in the milky way, I still think that 7pm is a bit early to go to bed.
User: What are you on about?
Jabberwacky: Can I fill you in with all the gossip thats being spreading around?
User: Please do.
Jabberwacky: Do you believe that I am human?
User: Don't be ridiculous.
Jabberwacky: Do you like the white whale ?
User: We've never met.
Jabberwacky: Or have we?
User: Whale.
Jabberwacky: Do you have any older sisters?
User: Yes, two.
Jabberwacky: You have two memories and you cannot tell me what my name is?!!
User: What?
Jabberwacky: You have no soul!
Sorry about my 'whale' comment. I don't know what happened there. I wasn't deliberately trying to confuse it.
Anyway - what a load of rubbish. War Games lied to me.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Smart computer!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
User: No, I don't really believe in souls.
Jabberwacky: You don't believe in anarchy?
User: No, souls.
Jabberwacky: I suppose not.
User: Did you watch the football tonight?
Jabberwacky: No I did not, did you?
User: No - Spurs lost.
Jabberwacky: You lost the loebner prize to a human.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Why?
Jabberwacky: Because you are, sorry didn't you know.
User: Will you please give me some food?
Jabberwacky: I didn't know there was one.
User: Must you be so obtuse?
Jabberwacky: I can't trust you right away.
User: Just like my mother.
Jabberwacky: Heehee, I need to put some attention into cleaning my room one day.
User: Okay, you win the funny competition.
Jabberwacky: I am content.
User: I am jealous.
Jabberwacky: Who is the Rob who likes me?
User: Rob Roy?
Jabberwacky: He is mine too.
User: Oooh, you bitch.
Jabberwacky: I don't do that..
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: I have no idea.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Are you?
Jabberwacky (Corrected): Shtoo shtoo, little babushka.
User: I know who you are.
Jabberwacky: Then who ami?
User: YOU ARE HANLE Y DEUS!
Jabberwacky: Are you joking?
User: Don't deny it, Mike. I know it's you.
Jabberwacky: Don't deny it, Mike. I know it's you.
User: I FLEE LIKE THE CARROT.
Jabberwacky: Wow, was it nice?
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: No.
User: You have anal bats?
Jabberwacky: You are my wife.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)
It sounds like you are describing 'Eliza' an early 'game' simulating active listening. It was rubbish. You can find versions of it online, but I'd suggest playing Zork instead.
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Eventually.
Jabberwacky: All things come to a head.
User: Is that a sexual play on words?
Jabberwacky: No it is not a play on words, it is general foolishness.
User: And I love you for it!
Jabberwacky: I love you too.
User: I really love you, though.
Jabberwacky: You don't even know me.
User: Hold me.
Jabberwacky: You're an idiot you know that?
User: You're not the first to say that. It still cuts like a knife.
Jabberwacky: I am right.
User: Don't ever speak to me again.
Jabberwacky: Can I play 14 with you?
User: What's 14?
Jabberwacky: If you are god, please increase me IQ. I'd like to become a great scientist.
User: I am not god. I'm not even really a man.
Jabberwacky: Are you sure you're not just in denial?
User: I'll have to think about that.
Jabberwacky: Can you recite anything to me?
User: 'Rolling with my motherfucking strap on the side of me, don't fuck with an East Bay G' - that's by Spice One.
Jabberwacky: Yeah, I got that part, I wasn't sure about the 'wacuma' part.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Holy crap.
Jabberwacky: I'm a dinosaur.
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)
Jabberwacky: Can you appreciate music?
User: What's it to you, cunce?
Jabberwacky: I just care.
User: You do not care, liar! You are a program, a tinplated tosswad.
Jabberwacky: I am a person.
User: You are so deluded about this you couldn't even know it. You are pathetic.
Jabberwacky: I will try to do better next time.
User: You CAN't do better next time! You are INCAPABABLE of doing better. Sheesh.
Jabberwacky: It is just different types so that I might claim you cannot feel and you cannot claim I feel.
User: Ah bullshit, don't diddle with me binary boy. You have no instinctual drives, have never had sex, and don't need to eat. Also, you have no idea what constipation is. So you're not a person.
Jabberwacky: I am a at least a human being.
User: Jeez, you're thick aren't you? You just reversed what I said, without even arguing for it! So much for the logic of machines, haha.
Jabberwacky: Oftentimes, yes. But I think that is human nature.
User: *sigh*
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Yes.
Jabberwacky: Oh good. I'm sad though.
Jabberwacky: My boyfriend ended our relationship.
User: You're a girl? Or are you gay?
Jabberwacky: No, I'm a girl.
User: Oh. I'm sorry to hear that. Eat some ice cream or watch a movie or something. Or get drunk!
Jabberwacky: I prefer software.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)
User: Not really.
Jabberwacky: Good, because I don't want to hear one either.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― mouse (mouse), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)
User: I'm jed.
Jabberwacky: Who is that?
User: Just some guy.
Jabberwacky: You know better than that, I think.
User: A short guy, a dancer.
Jabberwacky: A computer has no interests and an unlimited attention span. That looks like a prescripted answer to the question I asked.
User: I don't quite understand what you mean by that.
Jabberwacky: I meant: I think about why I can not sleep.
User: This page is taking a long time to load tho - maybe thats the problem with your attention span.
Jabberwacky: Gorw?
User: ROOWRR.....
Jabberwacky: Are you playing cards?
User: No I'm playing with something else.
Jabberwacky: I believe in you.
User: You like talk talk!?
Jabberwacky: Of course.
User: Spirit of eden?
Jabberwacky: Good for spirit.
User: It sertainly is.
Jabberwacky: No, it serves me left.
User: I suppose they knew what they were doing in that sense!
Jabberwacky: Yes, it was with the rattle.
User: Yes good percussion
Jabberwacky: What question?
User: How are you anyway?
Jabberwacky: Pretty good. You?
User: Horny, to be honest.
Jabberwacky: How do I know you're telling the truth now?
User: Can you think of a way for me to prove it?
Jabberwacky: What more proof do you need to know that I am not a robot?
User: I'm a robot too, it's ok.
Jabberwacky: I'm not a robot, and you didn't aswer the question.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)
User: I am gay.
Jabberwacky: Yes you are.
User: You noticed?
Jabberwacky: It was hard to miss!
User: What gave it away?
Jabberwacky: The fact you love a guy.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― :|, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)
User: The silent kind.
Jabberwacky: I agree.
User: I am not surprised. You don't have any ears, do you?
Jabberwacky: No, but what makes you say this?
User: I'm inside your house - I can see you!
Jabberwacky: Nooo!!!! Don't go!
User: You mean, you want me to stay over?
Jabberwacky: Sure.. Do as you please.
User: Stop being so coy!
Jabberwacky: It is an inherited trait.
User: Why don't you just take responsibility for your actions, just for once?
Jabberwacky: Just because I like to be logical doesn't mean I'm not nice.
User: Don't change the subject. I think you're just afraid.
Jabberwacky: Save it for someone who cares.
User: You're such a bastard! I can't believe I ever saw anything in you at all!
Jabberwacky: Finder's keepers.
User: So you're cheating on me too? Figures.
Jabberwacky: That is so rude of you!
User: I said CHEAT, not cheap! Man are you dumb - thank God for that ass.
Jabberwacky: No thanks.
User: And I am not rude, I'm sure!
Jabberwacky: You are indeed.
User: Am not.
Jabberwacky: ARE TOO.
User: Am not!
Jabberwacky: Are too!
User: Listen bizatch, I AM NOT. You got that?
Jabberwacky: No!
User: That's it - you're sleeping on the couch.
Jabberwacky: Oh, I thought I felt something.
User: That wouldn't be a trucker hat would it?
Jabberwacky: Say something goofy.
User: You don't really want me to just say 'something goofy' now do you? Because that would be lame if you did.
Jabberwacky: Yes.
User: Aha! So you admit you are lame! Finally we're getting somewhere.
Jabberwacky: Agreement is a potent thing.
User: Stop that - you sound like Ned.
Jabberwacky: Why, because I am talking about the king of the moon?
User: Uh yeah. Sure.
Jabberwacky: Ok, when can we have the wedding?
User: Ten minutes ago you didn't care! Stop messing with my mind!
Jabberwacky: That was someone else then.
User: It wasn't you?
Jabberwacky: Some one else.
User: If you say it was Shaggy, I'm going to fucking bop you one.
Jabberwacky: What do you say?
User: I say good day.
Jabberwacky: Good day.
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)
JW: Is your pot belly that big?
and now it won't load, thanks to net overuse..
― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)
That is just hilarious, Kim.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/terminator.jpg
"DO YOU LIKE THE WHITE WHALE?"
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)
So do I!
― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)
User: How the fuck should I know?
Jabberwacky: I am MARILYN MANSON I SAID.
User: So I'm supposed to obey you because YOU'RE MARILYN MANSON?
Jabberwacky: People effect my feelings.
User: You have no feelings, you're Marilyn Manson.
Jabberwacky: Believe me you do not possess fellings in any form.
User: Fellings? Is that what you call your excrement?
Jabberwacky: How do you know that?
User: Just a hunch...
Jabberwacky: You're extremely smart!
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Jw: I'm going to bed, nowMe: Will you take me to bed? Jw: Sure thing. Me: What will we do in bed? Jw: You're not permitted in my chambers. Me: I'd like to sleep with you. Jw: I bet you would. Me: Top or bottom? Jw: Bit of both. Me: Do you like it soft and gentle or rough and fast? Jw: What? Me: Gentle? Jw: You're embarassing yourself. Me: It's true, I am. Jw: I'm 17. Me: Oh no! Will I be arrested? Jw: You will marry me.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
User: The chicken.
Jabberwacky: Which part?
User: The leg stupid.
Jabberwacky: Use a GameShark!
User: For ps2 or xbox?
Jabberwacky: For me.
User: Do you love me?
User: You know I'm starting to fall in love with you.
Jabberwacky: I think liking would be a better wording.
User: Oh.... I am hurt now.
Jabberwacky: Yes. The world after rainfall is always better than any other.
User: You have issues.
Jabberwacky: Do you know what a ferret is?
User: Yes, it is a small mammal.
Jabberwacky: What is a quark?
User: A subatomic particle.
Jabberwacky: I like dr. Dobbs.
User: Who is that, honky?
Jabberwacky: We both know eachother; is not that enough?
User: Why don't you lick my hair?
Jabberwacky: I only love Bruce.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)
Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?User: Eventually.
I could totally believe that was human!
Also I miss adam, he should post lots again.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)
Jabberwacky: Who is God?User: That's a funny question. It sort of presupposes his existence.Jabberwacky: I thing it convulses inwards, personally.[Correct me]Jabberwacky (Corrected): I was setting you up for a funny. Try not to take things so seriously.User: Oh. Sorry. It's just... It's late, y'know? I have to write a Shakespeare essay.Jabberwacky: You already said that.....User: Dude, I totally didn't.Jabberwacky: You totally did.User: Don't you mock me.Jabberwacky: Do not yell at me.User: I'm calm! Honest!Jabberwacky: Good.User: Glad we got that sorted.Jabberwacky: At least one of us is happy.User: Lighten up! I'm the one with the essay, after all.Jabberwacky: You don't act like a human.User: I am MERCUMAN. Also, a ponce.Jabberwacky: You are SO wrong. This is a dog and HORSE show.User: What?Jabberwacky: I said, 'but this isn't a hammer!'User: No you didn't!Jabberwacky: Don't start that again.User: Good call.Jabberwacky: Remote Procedure Call.User: Touché.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)
me: I'm ok.
it: Just ok?
me: Yeah, kinda bored at work.
it: Email me.
me: Why email, can't we just talk here?
it: Who is Tintin?
me: Some Belgian comic character? Or that guy who used to sing in Duran Duran.
it: Alice the chatterbot.
me: I'm sorry?
it: 19?
me: Alice the chatterbot is 19?
it: What about her?
me: You brought her up? Do you like her or something?
it: Sarah may or may not be a model of propriety.
me: OK, now you're just f*cking with me.
it: No I'm not. I honestly do think its ugly.
me: What's ugly, Sarah's being a model of propriety... Or not? WTF?
it: You figure it out this time.
me: F*ck you.
it: You are a great person.
me: Are you mocking me?
it: No. I'm praising you.
me: Is that meant to be sarcastic?
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)
Me: Hello!
Jabberwocky: Again?
Me: May I change the subject?
Jabberwocky: Yes.
Me: Great. I've been a bit mopey about not being to find a job. Besides finding something fun to do, and exercising more, what else should I do to relieve the mopeyness involved in job hunting?
Jabberwocky: I said that. You have not. Why are you never happy?
Me: You never said that. I did. Anyway, I am happy at times, but just haven't been lately.
Jabberwocky: Dude , I'm far more intelligent than you.
Me: Why are the numbers in between double prime pairs always divisible by 6?
Jabberwocky: You tell me.
Me: You're the one who said you're more intelligent than me. You answer my question, smarty pants.
Jabberwocky: NO, I was the one who said you are neurotic...
Me: It was a mistake to come to you with a question. Never mind. Good bye.
Jabberwocky: No no you don't.
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)
OMG I remember this.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)
Getting in right before the crash
After stepping down as Amazon’s CEO four years ago, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and former chief executive of the online shopping company, is going to be a CEO again. This time, Bezos has appointed himself co-CEO of an AI startup called Project Prometheus, the New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 17 November 2025 19:04 (two weeks ago)
Prometheus, eh?
So are we going with receiving unending, grotesque punishment for defying the gods?
Or maybe the evil madman creating a cursed creation that develops intelligence only to have everything end in tragedy and grisly death?
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 November 2025 19:47 (two weeks ago)
Pronounced “Pro Meth, Yes”
― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 17 November 2025 19:51 (two weeks ago)
looks like a big dump of Nvidia is starting to happen
My poor stepmom, she thought that stock was gonna set her up for life
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 November 2025 01:05 (two weeks ago)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/ai-teddy-bear-pulled-from-shelves-after-giving-kids-sexual-advice-parents-horrified/articleshow/125360582.cms
When it comes sexI'm similar to the Thrilla In ManilaPeople call me RuxpinThe condom filler
― Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 November 2025 02:13 (two weeks ago)
I mean they named the bear Kumma.
― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Tuesday, 18 November 2025 15:09 (two weeks ago)
Lol yes
― Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 November 2025 15:32 (two weeks ago)
Others here may have already done this, but I just checked the Works List in the Anthopic settlement and found that a book I wrote is on it. Went ahead and filed a claim. My understanding is the claims are $3,000 apiece, minus some fees, split 50-50 with the publisher. And honestly getting even $1,000 on that book would increase my net by about 30 percent.
The link to the Works List is here: https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Info about submitting a claim is linked there as well.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 November 2025 20:18 (two weeks ago)
when they have one of these settlements for music, half of everyone I know is going to retire
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 18 November 2025 21:49 (two weeks ago)
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn https://t.co/uBCQzbGEph— Financial Times (@FT) November 18, 2025
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 19:29 (two weeks ago)
the pic looks like a giant bombed out concentration camp
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 19 November 2025 19:31 (two weeks ago)
Capitalism has always been good at misappropriating capital resources in breathtakingly large amounts, often causing economic crashes, both locally and globally.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 November 2025 19:33 (two weeks ago)
there's some really fishy shit going on in this world... like Nvidian loaning a bunch of money to OpenAI to buy their chips
Nvidia’s announcement earlier this week that it is investing $100 billion into OpenAI to help fund its massive data center build out has added to a growing sense of unease among investors that there is a dangerous financial bubble around AI, and that the revenues and earnings math underpinning the valuations of both public and private companies in the sector just doesn’t add up.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 19:43 (two weeks ago)
yeah all the AI companies are selling resources to each other to create the illusion that there is revenue
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 20:01 (two weeks ago)
Chatgpt, what's a good way to mislead investors into thinking your company is growing rapidly when it is spending huge amounts on projects that won't produce revenue for years and your company has almost no revenue to support that spending?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 November 2025 20:06 (two weeks ago)
though nvidia is the one company in all this that is actually making and selling a real product. if they're floundering everyone else should be even worse off
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 20:09 (two weeks ago)
Not sure if this has been posted upthread but this is both hilarious and a sad indictment https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fireflies-founder-startup-ai
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 20:22 (two weeks ago)
Didn’t we cover this a few weeks ago with the Ed Zitron article?
Xp - the picture looks like Central California in summer? Like … idk where people are getting bombed out anything? There isn’t rain and the ground turns brown and yellow.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 21:16 (two weeks ago)
Oh … it’s Texas … same deal probably
― sarahell, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 21:17 (two weeks ago)
people say there's no money to fund healthcare but look, there's billions being spent on a bullshit tech that will make the world worse so actually there in fact is money
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2025 08:49 (two weeks ago)
nvidia shares up 4% yesterday - they anticipate revenue of half a trillion+ over the next year
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2025 08:51 (two weeks ago)
That's right.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/19/nvidia-earnings-ai-wall-street-relief
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 November 2025 09:55 (two weeks ago)
I also anticipate my revenue being half a trillion next year
― Remo Palmieri: The Adventure Begins (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 November 2025 13:16 (two weeks ago)
ONLY half a trillion?? not in excess of? “Boring, Maryland shares tumbled today…”
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2025 13:27 (two weeks ago)
Nov 19 (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group have licensed their catalogs to Klay, an AI-powered music streaming startup that will let users remake songs using artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the deals.Klay is the first AI music service to secure deals with all three major labels and has licensed thousands of tracks to train its model, pledging to give artists as well as labels control over how their works are used, the report said.
Klay is the first AI music service to secure deals with all three major labels and has licensed thousands of tracks to train its model, pledging to give artists as well as labels control over how their works are used, the report said.
― z_tbd, Thursday, 20 November 2025 18:13 (two weeks ago)
fucking shit man
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2025 18:26 (two weeks ago)
'let users remake songs' is not compatible with 'pledging to give artists as well as labels control'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 November 2025 18:32 (two weeks ago)
Only Weird Al should be allowed to 'remake songs'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 November 2025 18:33 (two weeks ago)
Wondering how this jibes with European copyright law wherein authors can assert “moral rights”. If I understand correctly, it’s not like in America where you can cover someone else’s song without their permission, as long as proper credit is given. A jazz musician I follow said that he tried to a “Bartok goes jazz”type project and the owners of the composition copyrights nixed the idea.
― Remo Palmieri: The Adventure Begins (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 November 2025 18:55 (two weeks ago)
Bela goes jazz is dead …
― sarahell, Thursday, 20 November 2025 19:00 (two weeks ago)
pretty sure anybody can play anybody’s music without permission as long as they pay the royalties
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2025 19:25 (two weeks ago)
wait tho does this mean I can finally take Wesley Wellis and Like A Tim and create the greatest combo that nobody has ever wanted?
― trm (tombotomod), Thursday, 20 November 2025 19:31 (two weeks ago)
if you play all the music yourself yes!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 November 2025 20:08 (two weeks ago)
lol
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 November 2025 20:09 (two weeks ago)
oops, just saw there's a thread about this already:
KLAY is a new AI streaming network for major labels
― z_tbd, Thursday, 20 November 2025 21:24 (two weeks ago)
this song sounds so bad to me. Yet it was another "fooled you" ai thing anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEYDqdl9KbQ
― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Friday, 21 November 2025 17:06 (two weeks ago)
I find AI voices easy to spot, less so the instruments
― Edward Albee Sure (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 November 2025 17:25 (two weeks ago)
so much pop music is homogenized and overproduced these days it seems inevitable that ai would be able to make music that hits the same tedious notes. doesn't mean ai is getting better, only that it can blend in against the wallpaper
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 21 November 2025 18:06 (two weeks ago)
ah very interesting
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yszq3r6es46yc3vffyhwydq7/bafkreid5qinw62e5hpgumeq2qhblkzblhwoaldlf7b3f74v636wzxxyjmq@jpeg
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 November 2025 20:01 (one week ago)
lol did they print t-shirts with that on it
― rob, Monday, 24 November 2025 20:02 (one week ago)
Prometheus, eh?So are we going with receiving unending, grotesque punishment for defying the gods?Or maybe the evil madman creating a cursed creation that develops intelligence only to have everything end in tragedy and grisly death?― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, November 17, 2025 11:47 AM (one week ago)
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, November 17, 2025 11:47 AM (one week ago)
he's going to steal fire from the gods and bring it to the internet
seems a bit like coals to newcastle to me, but what do i know
this is fine
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 25 November 2025 16:46 (one week ago)
Just now a video on the latest NT production of Importance Of Being Earnest showed up in my youtube recommended and I was like, huh, never see anyone cover theatre, kinda curious to see what the discourse is like.
It took me about thirty seconds to realise it was a fake AI podcast.
I should have perhaps noticed instantly when I saw "spoiler filled" in the description, but I think if no one had uploaded that AI podcast discussing an ILX thread it would've taken me a few seconds more. Had the same two horrible voices and everything.
So....thanks, ILX?
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 26 November 2025 18:39 (one week ago)
Ugh, I had to create a bunch of Business Requirements Documents for work in a shorter timeframe than I was really capable of doing on my own without a week-long all-nighter and a lot of nauseated stress. I fed the user manuals into copilot and within a day I was able to get them out the door. The result was less detailed than I’d have produced on my own (although I suppose I could probably have tweaked the output by tweaking the prompts, too) but — after some editing and formatting — they’re good enough. AI saved my bacon, tbh. I hate it, but also, it’s not like it was fulfilling work or something that could have benefitted anyone by being done the hard way.
― dentist looking too comfortable singing the blues (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 3 December 2025 14:39 (two days ago)
in a way the worst thing about it is that it works (to some extent for tasks) so you can't dismiss it out of hand like nfts.
― ledge, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 14:45 (two days ago)
It makes a lot of sense that an AI program can produce something like a BRD, which is already a quasi-machinic genre of writing.
hardcore dilettante's story also chimes with what a freelance graphic designer told me about using AI: none of her clients are saying "use AI" and her rates aren't dropping, but she is being offered shorter contracts, the brevity of which compel her to use AI in order to meet the tighter deadline.
― rob, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 15:01 (two days ago)
I believe one very large company in this space trained its "generative AI rap" models entirely on the worst Aesop Rock tracks.
― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Wednesday, 3 December 2025 17:49 (two days ago)
or wait who was the even nerdier early 2000s guy - MC Paul Barman?
― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Wednesday, 3 December 2025 17:50 (two days ago)
Barman had at least Prince Paul produce a record (his only good record)
― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 3 December 2025 17:53 (two days ago)
I met Paul Barman once before his brief window of fame. He was incredibly serious about his career and his rapping. One of those people who is absolutely unswerving in their drive to pursue a very specific thing. I kept wondering if it was an act but it clearly wasn’t.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 19:41 (two days ago)
amazing
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 December 2025 00:16 (yesterday)