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My dead father is “writing” me notes again

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/my-dead-father-is-writing-me-notes-again/

A recent AI discovery resurrected my late father's handwriting—and I want anyone to use it.

“My dead father is “writing” me notes again A recent AI discovery resurrected my late father's handwriting—and I want anyone to use it.” - by Benj Edwards - Sep 12, 2024 5:00am CST

I find this use of AI, like with 99% of the “uses” for AI to be not only disturbing as all hell, but shows that we are creeping closer and closer to bizarro world.

14 comments

gedaliyah

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Please correct the Post Title to match the Article Title (RULE 4)

Edit: thank you. Post has been unlocked.

EmpathicVagrant

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Trace Memory // Another Code intensifies

ptz

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Kyrgizion

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I'm not too worried yet. Took like 8 tries to generate an image and it kept coming out wrong. The AI acknowledged that it was wrong, correctly identified what was wrong and promised to rectify it. 8 tries later and I gave up and it actually thanked me for letting it off without further tries.

DmMacniel

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Damn, you actually tortured an AI?

Rhaedas

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I think that while current LLMs don't have the greatest context memories, they will remember certain things long from now.

massive_bereavement

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Generate a picture of a house absolutely without any giraffes whatsoever. There should be no giraffes.

glimse

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Huh...I kinda figured they'd be past that by now but I used your exact text for this:

massive_bereavement

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What's even funnier is telling it it's wrong and to generate it again.

QuadratureSurfer

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Depends on what you're using.
With local models you use something called a "negative prompt" to exclude anything that you don't want in the image.

QuadratureSurfer

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If you really want this to work, you would have to train/fine tune a model by feeding it a bunch of images that show that person's handwriting.

if you're just asking ChatGPT to do this for you then you're doing it wrong.

aramis87

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Does that mean that AI can successfully read handwriting? I have some very old family letters, but I think I'm the last generation that'll be able to read them.

zabadoh

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My scribblings will still be illegible after I'm dead. HA!

Rhaedas

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They can also, with varying success rates, use a sample of a person's speech to resurrect a dead person's voice to say things. Which can be used for good or bad purposes, like any tool. I do think recreating someone's handwriting a lot more balanced on the bad uses than on the good..