As someone who's done just that... if it helps, understand that this is the kind of person who would be spending hours writing that paragraph anyway, LLM or no.

There are many possible reasons for this, and sometimes people are laboring under several of them at once.

So, could this be an example of an LLM trained fully on public domain copyright-expired data? Or is this not intended to be the case.

data is 100% public domain.

In fact in this case, it's not the known limitation of floating point numbers to blame: this Calculator application gives you the ability (submenu under View > Decimal Places) to choose a precision between 0 to 15 decimal places, and it will do rounding beyond that point. I think the default is 8.

The original screenshot shows a number with 13 decimal places, and if you set it at or above 13, then the calculation will come out correct.

The application doesn't really go out of its way to communicate this to the user. For the most part maybe it doesn't matter, but "user entering more decimal places than they'll get back" might be one thing an application might usefully highlight.

> I'm on Mastodon. It's only very mildly nice. The reality is that it still suffers from all of this.

Most of it, at least - it does give the option to not be shown forwarded messages. There's controls on the home timeline to not show boosts, quotes, and/or replies.

Unfortunately English "fun" is used both for good wholesome fun and for the cruel fun that is "making fun of" people (laughing at their misfortune).

The site also says (at the bottom) that it grabbed the translations from Google Translate back in 2014 and hasn't updated them since.

Yeah, the bit that gets me is the assumption that an artist just _yields_ to the AI's choices.

The author says in the article "my own hand, the single most valuable asset I possess", but I'd say that much greater is the artist's eye——the artist doesn't just accept every line that flows out of their pencil, but knows what to throw out, what to redraw.

The infamous stereotype of AI art, the hand with too many fingers, is the outcome of a lot of people being given an artificially skilled hand without the skilled eye to go with it...

The AI artist who doesn't just cede to the AI, though, is bringing their own hand and eye to the work, not accepting the mere output of a prompt, but actively remaking it as an expression of their own craft and vision.

With the difference that they have to invoke incantation instead of using their invaluable hands :’)

And I guess that could create the much dreaded feeling of yielding up their artistic agency.

I've always wondered why people didn't edit out the extra fingers and legs. I haven't played with it myself - is post editing difficult?

Not really, you erase and then inpaint, or replace the offending area with multicolor noise, put a bit of multicolor noise over the whole thing, then do an image-to-image run on that.

Lots of black-and-white pictures, lots of pictures in silhouette.

Pictures of the tower can also have a lot of... texture? If you don't know you're looking at "brown with shadows" you might think you're looking at "black with highlights."

Internet Archive suggests the original discussion was a Usenet thread; here is the link to Google Groups' version of it:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/geometry.research/7pyFhAAy...