Miles Klee 🦉

A quote from me - “it’s pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle — as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself, and can be removed entirely from the equation”

Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today

sure, we stole a bunch of copyrighted material and are offering advice from dead people but at least our new products are terrible and for some reason even the old stuff is unusable now too

whoa

Beyond the dubious ethics, there’s the question of whether these proliferating AI widgets are even effective or helpful. Grammarly’s plagiarism detector, for instance, didn’t catch a direct quotation I used from a scene in The Simpsons where Bart improvises a geography presentation he hasn’t prepared for, leading to an empty summation: “In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts.” (Grammarly did warn, however, that “a land of contrasts” is a sequence of words often generated by LLMs.)

Couldn't help quoting Bart Simpson in my sample text when messing around with the app:

wtf??? this industry is like a children’s cartoon about evil nerds experiencing psychosis

I was actually shocked at how many AI bells and whistles it has now

“Presumably, these different AI agents are trained on the oeuvres of the people they are meant to imitate, though the legality of this content-harvesting remains murky at best, and the subject of many, many copyright lawsuits.”

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Grammarly's new AI tools necromance famous dead authors, and "humanize" copy to make it sound less robotic. But it also failed to detect obvious plagiarism when @milesklee.bsky.social tried it: www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.

CRAZY book

politics aside for a second: he probably could've used a few more hours of metronome practice on this one. you can hear the drummer's silent internal screams

grandpas, i believe

no offense but literally who falls for these bots

Rise @lorarose35444.bsky.social Yesterday at 11:00 PM Hi handsome how are you doing nice too meet you ••. I've been killed for being too sexy. It was a ritualistic sacrifice 11:02 PM Hi handsome My name is Rose I'm 33 years old now and you 11:09 PM Hi handsome 11:19 PM Today at 12:05 AM Not anymore. They cut off my face So now I'm supposed to just imagine the rest Not cool

Rise @lorarose35444.bsky.social •.. I can send a pic 12:10 AM I can not send it there now So can you send me your Zangi number so we can chat on Zangi messenger that better for use My face has been cut off Oh really So you can download Zangi messenger on your Phone so we can chat there better I will just be blood and muscle and screaming the whole time. Have you seen Face/Off (1997) I want you to download Zangi messenger on your Phone so we can know more better my dear

Rise @lorarose35444.bsky.social •.. The cartel isn't letting me Send me a nice Pic of you you can't send pics on this site dumbass Yesh I do that So can you send me your Zangi number now what is Zangi 12:35 AM Is on your App my dear It on your phone App download it right now so we can know more better 1:02 AM Face/Off (1997) watch it and then we can talk 1:23 AM

another great bot convo

ORSON WELLES: [breathing contemptuously] horror is a joke, or did you not know that. [opens another bottle of red wine] there are ghosts in here, would you care for a sniff?

DON DRAPER: the Twilight Zone. sure, it’s scary if you’re six years old and afraid of being sent to Mars. but what about Alfred. the chubby guy who jokes about married people killing each other. that goes deeper…

Miles saying Ryan Murphy could never reboot Alfred Hitchcock Presents

This epic diss from @milesklee.bsky.social deserves to be liberated from the replies of a long thread:

says a lot about Ryan Murphy that he can’t reboot it

[silhouette gets fatter]

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: ghood eevnihng. it has come to auhr attention that individuals born in 1946 will controhl the whorld’s gahvements for another centchary. theafoh they have oll been ehxecutehd by firing sqhuad

ROD SERLING: That year, 1946. The cigarettes were so good back then. [big drag] Unfortunately, a man from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy was about to ruin all subtext,

Twilight Zone premise

i can’t wait to performatively carry around the Iliad the month Nolan’s Odyssey comes out

Politely fried tf outta my man

same bloke got me as well. i’ve heard he may be hiding in Washington D.C.

r/gardening . 2y ago YouTube gardeners with good cinematography + no conspiracy theories?

yes it still works

gonna keep it real with you… i dropped an airpod in the toilet earlier

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please leave me alone