Posted On: Tuesday - June 25th 2024 6:24PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Global Climate Stupidity Artificial Stupidity The Future
I wrote in the comments under last Saturday's musical climatic humor post, You've stolen my dreams (and lyrics), that I don't hate Greta Thunberg. I don't see her as evil. Even her extreme emotional stupidity is something I simply chalk up to her having been a teenage girl who had no reason to know any better. (In this day and age, I don't think going to school instead of going out on the
I should have done this myself for that previous post, but between my lazy streak and commenter Adam Smith's great helpfulness, I'll present AI Western Greta here and now. Adam had nearly a dozen for us, but these are my 3 favorites.
The AI sure knows its way around a woman's body... I'm just sayin'. I will stipulate that gunfighter Greta here was 18 y/o or older, or whatever you had to be in mid-1800s America. Really, as I wrote in the comments, this AI is scary - the porno possibilities of AI are endless. Did it learn its way around the female body by analysis of curves in millions of pictures?
I'm impressed. I cannot find where on this site I compared Greta to Marcia Brady, but I now stand vindicated on that one. We presented a more unfavorable comparison in Straight outta' Sweden: Greta v Agnetha, and the reader may want to check out our other posts, Greta is Gettin' Upset! - - Greta is Betta! - - Ring, Ring, Greta please give me a call ...♬ ♬ - - Death Metal Greta - - Introducing Black Greta and The evil side of Greta at the Trekkie Convo.
That's Calamity Greta with a big wheel gun. I guess it doesn't help to determine the caliber with AI having done whatever it "imagines". Greta ought to do more sit-ups to flatten that belly, but I'm not gonna be the one to tell her.* It's probably just the camera angle.
That'd have been much better for "High Plains Grifter".
Just to make it clear here - These are not real pictures of Greta Thunberg. I think plinking or marksmanship might be nice hobby for Greta and a way for her to release her pent-up frustrations about nobody caring enough about the coming demise of The Planet.
Commenter Hail has told us that that cute little "How dare you?" girl has turned 21. The following 2 Eagles songs are probably better suited for a young man, being Twenty-one and "knowing what freedom means to me", I can't give a reason why, I should ever want to die." and then getting a little "Out of Control".
On this "concept album" Desperado, Twenty-one is followed with no dead space by Out of Control which has some out of control guitars at the end. Great stuff.
Back to Greta for a second, Tom Petty has asked the same question I have:
* We're just getting back to pistol shooting after years for me. My son and I will shoot some cheap - well, they WERE then - .380 rounds tomorrow.)
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[UPDATED 06/26:] Oops, the compounds that make up smokeless powder do contain Carbon atoms. I'd looked only at the molecular diagram and forgotten that the Carbon "backbones" are assumed. (The chemical formula was there, but I didn't look till now.) A PS Chem review is in order. Thanks, commenter M!
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Comments:
Greta Thunberg
Thursday - June 27th 2024 6:39AM MST
PS: How Dare You All!
The Alarmist
Wednesday - June 26th 2024 11:55AM MST
PS
Again, how dare you !
Say thirty Hail Gretas to atone for your sin....
Hail Greta, sour of face,
the Lord be with thee.
Blessed art though among birthing persons,
and blessed be us if your womb stays barren.
Holy Greta, bother of us all,
curse us deniers
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Again, how dare you !
Say thirty Hail Gretas to atone for your sin....
Hail Greta, sour of face,
the Lord be with thee.
Blessed art though among birthing persons,
and blessed be us if your womb stays barren.
Holy Greta, bother of us all,
curse us deniers
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Moderator
Wednesday - June 26th 2024 5:25AM MST
PS: Old Soldier, I guess it does what it can to keep her most recognizable facial features still there to be recognized. (Does it compare in all the women's faces picture data it has to make sure the face is not closer to someone else? I don't know.)
It keeps the frown on her face for the "How dare you?!" effect, so that's part of the problem.
M, you are right. I made a change and explained on the bottom. Yes, I was too hasty and didn't remember some basic chemistry, (the part about the diagrams and the carbon not being written explicitly out).
In answer to your giving me an out, though, I didn't mean no "Carbon" the way the Climate Crazies do, when they actually DO mean CO2. I was thinking there was no Carbon in the molecules of Nitrocellulose and Nitroglycerine - wrong. Yes, I would think some CO2 would result from the combustion, as where else would the C's wind up?) I'd better not state that either way. ;-}
It keeps the frown on her face for the "How dare you?!" effect, so that's part of the problem.
M, you are right. I made a change and explained on the bottom. Yes, I was too hasty and didn't remember some basic chemistry, (the part about the diagrams and the carbon not being written explicitly out).
In answer to your giving me an out, though, I didn't mean no "Carbon" the way the Climate Crazies do, when they actually DO mean CO2. I was thinking there was no Carbon in the molecules of Nitrocellulose and Nitroglycerine - wrong. Yes, I would think some CO2 would result from the combustion, as where else would the C's wind up?) I'd better not state that either way. ;-}
Moderator
Wednesday - June 26th 2024 5:18AM MST
PS: Right, Mr. Hail, I'd assumed that the words on the store might be Swedish or something. is that the only indication that there's no there (mind) there?
I agree that I sure wouldn't want Ai to be used as a reference on me, for instance.
I agree that I sure wouldn't want Ai to be used as a reference on me, for instance.
M
Wednesday - June 26th 2024 3:07AM MST
PS
Not to be too pedantic, but "smokeless powder" certainly does contain carbon.
I will admit that I don't know just how much of it ends up as CO2 when used, but it won't be zero.
Not to be too pedantic, but "smokeless powder" certainly does contain carbon.
I will admit that I don't know just how much of it ends up as CO2 when used, but it won't be zero.
Old Soldier
Tuesday - June 25th 2024 11:55PM MST
PS
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that even AI is having a very difficult time making Greta anything more than somewhat less FOOGLY. Jeez, maybe AI already needs an upgrade???
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that even AI is having a very difficult time making Greta anything more than somewhat less FOOGLY. Jeez, maybe AI already needs an upgrade???
E. H. Hail
Tuesday - June 25th 2024 9:50PM MST
PS
My congratulations to Adam Smith for this Greta Thunberg satirical art.
A response to what the "AI" came up with for the store-front sign, and the future of informational-reliability:
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"GPE7E VOBD CUYGER'S"
That is what the sign on the frontage of that 19th-century Old West wooden building says. It's just a string of nonsense letters.
This is problem with "AI" or, really, large language models and the art equivalents. "It" doesn't understand that it's done an artist's conception of something. It just works by random guesses, stealing bits and pieces of things from millions and millions of previous works by humans, who did understand what they were doing and did things for specific purposes.
The "AI" then meshes them together in something plausible-looking. The results can be interesting but the core of the whole process is disturbing to me for that reason. There is no reliability because it's not done my a rational person.
Random letter-strings on signs: this is something a five-year-old child could do better on. How about: "Greta's General Store." Or: "Stupidity Investigation Service; Adam Smith, proprietor."
This may seem trivial when done for light laughs. But when people rely on AI for basic information-gathering or analysis, I get a bad feeling. To use a cliche, "There's no 'there' there." The informational equivalent of standing before a store labeled GPE7E VOBD CUYGER's, and thinking it normal!
My congratulations to Adam Smith for this Greta Thunberg satirical art.
A response to what the "AI" came up with for the store-front sign, and the future of informational-reliability:
--- ---
"GPE7E VOBD CUYGER'S"
That is what the sign on the frontage of that 19th-century Old West wooden building says. It's just a string of nonsense letters.
This is problem with "AI" or, really, large language models and the art equivalents. "It" doesn't understand that it's done an artist's conception of something. It just works by random guesses, stealing bits and pieces of things from millions and millions of previous works by humans, who did understand what they were doing and did things for specific purposes.
The "AI" then meshes them together in something plausible-looking. The results can be interesting but the core of the whole process is disturbing to me for that reason. There is no reliability because it's not done my a rational person.
Random letter-strings on signs: this is something a five-year-old child could do better on. How about: "Greta's General Store." Or: "Stupidity Investigation Service; Adam Smith, proprietor."
This may seem trivial when done for light laughs. But when people rely on AI for basic information-gathering or analysis, I get a bad feeling. To use a cliche, "There's no 'there' there." The informational equivalent of standing before a store labeled GPE7E VOBD CUYGER's, and thinking it normal!
Yoga Pants
oh,
AI-created yoga pants