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-Early in February 2023, I was walking around Oslo. I wanted some new electronic components for my various microcontroller experiments. I ended up buying those, and they were fun. The most positive part of that day was, without a doubt, the amazing döner kebab I had for lunch. I can probably not blame the kebab for what happened in my head next, but I do wish that it would have given my diarrhea instead. At least then I would have been stuck on the loo... I got the "amazing" idea to use the ChatGPT APIs to generate stories. OpenAI had probably trained their models on all the public domain books and texts they could find, right? (We all know that they did NOT in any way just legally use public domain works). That would give some truly wacky uncanny valley stories, right? So I got home, and started coding it. A simple Rust command line tool was made to use the ChatGPT REST APIs, and a Github Action was used to run this tool periodically. A nice website was added to present the stories. All coded by hand, and the only genAI generated data was present in the responses from the ChatGPT APIs. Text and some images. The project was [[https://github.com/themkat/aitales][AITales]], which can still be found on my Github account. At first, it was interesting. After seeing more and more stories, I felt so jaded. The uncanny valley aspect was fun for a while, but it quickly became apparent how much soulless garbage that was coming out of it. Some stories could almost pass as something a lower secondary school student might write. Beyond the "science experiment" part of seeing a few stories, the project was quickly getting boring. Like other people, I got the feeling that we might see generated text like these stories flood the internet in a few years. After about a year, I archived the project. (What took so much time? I was not in a good mental state either at the time due to medical shit, which you can read more about that in other blog posts.).
+Early in February 2023, I was walking around Oslo. I wanted some new electronic components for my various microcontroller experiments. I ended up buying those, and they were fun. The most positive part of that day was, without a doubt, the amazing döner kebab I had for lunch. I can probably not blame the kebab for what happened in my head next, but I do wish that it would have given my diarrhea instead. At least then I would have been stuck on the loo... I got the "amazing" idea to use the ChatGPT APIs to generate stories. OpenAI had probably trained their models on all the public domain books and texts they could find, right? (We all know that they did NOT in any way just legally use public domain works). That would give some truly wacky uncanny valley stories, right? So I got home, and started coding it. A simple Rust command line tool was made to use the ChatGPT REST APIs, and a Github Action was used to run this tool periodically. A nice website was added to present the stories. All coded by hand, and the only genAI generated data was the responses from the ChatGPT APIs. The project was [[https://github.com/themkat/aitales][AITales]], which can still be found on my Github account. At first, it was interesting. After seeing more and more stories, I felt so jaded. The uncanny valley aspect was fun for a while, but it quickly became apparent how much soulless garbage that was coming out of it. Some stories could almost pass as something a lower secondary school student might write. Beyond the "science experiment" part of seeing a few stories, the project was quickly getting boring. Like other people, I got the feeling that we might see generated text like these stories flood the internet in a few years. After about a year, I archived the project. (What took so much time? I was not in a good mental state either at the time due to medical shit, which you can read more about that in other blog posts.).
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`25`		-Early in February 2023, I was walking around Oslo. I wanted some new electronic components for my various microcontroller experiments. I ended up buying those, and they were fun. The most positive part of that day was, without a doubt, the amazing döner kebab I had for lunch. I can probably not blame the kebab for what happened in my head next, but I do wish that it would have given my diarrhea instead. At least then I would have been stuck on the loo... I got the "amazing" idea to use the ChatGPT APIs to generate stories. OpenAI had probably trained their models on all the public domain books and texts they could find, right? (We all know that they did NOT in any way just legally use public domain works). That would give some truly wacky uncanny valley stories, right? So I got home, and started coding it. A simple Rust command line tool was made to use the ChatGPT REST APIs, and a Github Action was used to run this tool periodically. A nice website was added to present the stories. All coded by hand, and the only genAI generated data was present in the responses from the ChatGPT APIs. Text and some images. The project was [[https://github.com/themkat/aitales][AITales]], which can still be found on my Github account. At first, it was interesting. After seeing more and more stories, I felt so jaded. The uncanny valley aspect was fun for a while, but it quickly became apparent how much soulless garbage that was coming out of it. Some stories could almost pass as something a lower secondary school student might write. Beyond the "science experiment" part of seeing a few stories, the project was quickly getting boring. Like other people, I got the feeling that we might see generated text like these stories flood the internet in a few years. After about a year, I archived the project. (What took so much time? I was not in a good mental state either at the time due to medical shit, which you can read more about that in other blog posts.).
	`25`	+Early in February 2023, I was walking around Oslo. I wanted some new electronic components for my various microcontroller experiments. I ended up buying those, and they were fun. The most positive part of that day was, without a doubt, the amazing döner kebab I had for lunch. I can probably not blame the kebab for what happened in my head next, but I do wish that it would have given my diarrhea instead. At least then I would have been stuck on the loo... I got the "amazing" idea to use the ChatGPT APIs to generate stories. OpenAI had probably trained their models on all the public domain books and texts they could find, right? (We all know that they did NOT in any way just legally use public domain works). That would give some truly wacky uncanny valley stories, right? So I got home, and started coding it. A simple Rust command line tool was made to use the ChatGPT REST APIs, and a Github Action was used to run this tool periodically. A nice website was added to present the stories. All coded by hand, and the only genAI generated data was the responses from the ChatGPT APIs. The project was [[https://github.com/themkat/aitales][AITales]], which can still be found on my Github account. At first, it was interesting. After seeing more and more stories, I felt so jaded. The uncanny valley aspect was fun for a while, but it quickly became apparent how much soulless garbage that was coming out of it. Some stories could almost pass as something a lower secondary school student might write. Beyond the "science experiment" part of seeing a few stories, the project was quickly getting boring. Like other people, I got the feeling that we might see generated text like these stories flood the internet in a few years. After about a year, I archived the project. (What took so much time? I was not in a good mental state either at the time due to medical shit, which you can read more about that in other blog posts.).
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