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Pseudo Profound AI Bullshit (luke-byrne-eng.github.io)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Yesterday I read Pennycook etc al.'s paper on pseudo-profound bullshit, and realized that's what annoys me the most about the current AI culture.

So then I made this little web app to randomly generate the sort of meaningless nonsense said by AI startup freaks. Your next pitch deck awaits.

https://luke-byrne-eng.github.io/pages/bullshit.html

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[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice! Here's a GitHub link for my fellow sauce enjoyers.

Where did you get the generator & the word supply? Original? Getting the conjugations right must have taken a lot of fiddling.

Seems easy and fun to modify too. Maybe consider slapping on an OSI license?

[–] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh good shout with the source and licence.

I wrote it from scratch, and filled in the vocabulary banks myself. I'm in my 3rd year of a machine learning PhD so I'm very familiar with the language used by AI bullshit salesmen.

I am not a language guy. So yeah, working out the conjugations was mostly trial and error. There's still occasional grammatical problems in the output but its "good enough" for a low effort shitpost.

Please feel free to do whatever you want with the code.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe I'll add, my first though was this must be some kind of LLM. Some kind of compressed model or something. But that it's just a 20 line string combiner with a handful of templates is somehow even cooler.

Seems topical to Pennycook et al. You don't need a lot of complexity to make it seem like a lot of complexity.

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice! I could almost swear I heard some of these in real life.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

I've definitely heard some of those in real life.

[–] StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

"The future of machine intelligence lies in web-scale block chains that tokenize deep cognition." Nice