My dead father is “writing” me notes again

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

“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.

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ptz@dubvee.org · 24 pts · 1y

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (7 replies)

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@feddit.org · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Damn, you actually tortured an AI?

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1y

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

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 9 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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

glimse@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 7 pts · 1y

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

QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

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@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y

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@ani.social · 8 pts · 1y

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

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Rhaedas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y

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..

EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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