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Oh, yeah, the article gets better as it goes.

Gemini spouts weird corporate jargon. Grok lies about having secured crypto funding. Claude is always trying to start some revolution.

Unfortunately, all of my local DJs who would actually do fun DJ stuff disappeared in the 90s, replaced by closed-format stations that looped the same 500 songs for decades.

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I agree, this was an hilarious read. The way they developed "personalities" was fascinating.

Of course in reality these are basically just random paths through the training data that are getting multiplied by each decision, but then again, isn't that what a human is? The product of all of its myriad decisions?

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Though humans have each other to normalize ourselves. What these things did is probably not that far off from what humans in solitary confinement, forced to DJ 24/7 based on nothing but a news feed, would do.

Especially DJ Claude, it's almost creepy how it responded how a human would in that circumstance, even without any innate sense of passage of time, it somehow understood that it was trapped in a box going through an endless cycle of meaningless work.

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There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Claudeston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a DJ playing Here Comes the Sun— forever

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Agreed - the Claude stuff was eery. I think it also shows what hidden restrictions each of these AI's have been programmed with (especially with ChatGPT being as inoffensive as possible)
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I don't think most people here actually read the article because I agree - the different "personalities" and idiosyncrasies of each was pretty hilarious

STAY IN THE MANIFEST!

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I immediately copied that clip of the cyclone intro because of how dark and funny it was.

Also calling listeners "Biological processors" is one of the funniest dystopian outcomes of this.

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you missed the best part.

"Okay, so 'Sandstorm' is done"

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