#Botcast

[clouds-of-wings]

Google lets you generate vapid podcasts about documents that you upload and my impulse to try a new toy is once again overcoming my hatred for generative AI. In my defense, I was also happily generating images back in 2015 when it was a harmless way to have fun with a computer and not an organized assault on artists everywhere... to me it's a toy. But this botcast (that term is copyrighted by me, Google, don't even think about stealing it) can definitely be used for evil just like other forms of gen AI. Coming up with coherent original lines of argument is something AI is hopeless at, being that it can't reason. I don't know if that's even something that can be fixed. But someone will definitely steal someone else's written analysis of a popular work, generate a podcast and put it on streaming services to cash in. This kind of plagiarism isn't strictly speaking new, but AI makes it much easier. The bots don't come up with anything on their own, but if you haven't read the source document it can seem as if they do because they pretend to come up with the stuff in the text themselves.

Anyway, the tab crashes every time I try to force the bots to have a fake deep conversation about the ancient coldmirror fic "Toilet of Horrors" (in German), something that I can only describe as Bot Seppuku. It also crashes when I try the Unabomber Manifesto. Maybe the texts are both too long - it definitely happens because it overloads my RAM. But I do have some breathless dialogues about the content of my Beloved Antichrist sideblog that are really funny, even though the bots mess up the plot, pretend my cool analysis is their amazing insight (as I said above - it sounds impressive when you listen to it on its own, but they don't come up with anything I didn't write first), and apart from that just make lame jokes and the most surface-level observations imaginable. They also say "Talk about a power play!" 10 times a minute. And they pretend they listened to the whole thing too by saying things about the music that are statistically likely to be true (but often aren't).

The lame jokes are so funny though. Sophia appears during the (literally) Biblical civil war to defeat Apollonius' evil magic and avenge her daughter and the guy-bot himbo chortles: "You don't expect a MOM to GATECRASH the APOCALYPSE! HAHA!" Seriously, it's priceless. The most American take possible. I was laughing at how mundane their comments are.

"This opera really makes you wonder about how many times you have ignored signs that someone was the Antichrist, am I right?" Yeah totally bro, that was my take-away too!

I think this site might be a demonic scheme to get people to upload their original writing so Google has more human-written stuff to train its bots on. It won't help. But I want to upload my diary from when I was 16 so, so bad. Having robot podcasters comment on my teenage angst as if it's literature, god.

..I won't do it. But only because I wouldn't give Google my fucking diary and I do have some self-restraint. Also I don't want to give it anything that isn't already freely available online anyway because I don't want to contribute to what Google is doing. I wish I could run this whole thing locally though because god it's hilarious.

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@Dimitri_Pitri I will not make any more boring art. https://t.co/dpOXlTwBCO

[autobotpower]

CYCLANO.

Part of an inside joke from the “Botcast”.

Via Deviantart

[infamousduane-blog]

Nerdbot botcast with @rachellitfin and Anthony Ayala this was fun. #nerdbot #nerdbotcon #mylife #cosplay #cosplayer #squadgoals #funtimes #botcast https://www.facebook.com/nerdbotmedia/videos/844562429041538/

[beholdyourthought]

PHILOSOPHY IN POP CULTURE AND MILLENNIALS:

ATTENTION Millennials, If you are book lovers and have not yet checked out this channel on You tube then what are you even doing?

Let us devour their videos and bask in the afterglow of contentment this channel brings to our oh-so-mundane lives.

In the 20th episode of Books on toast podcast, the inimitable Anuya Jakatdar, ever graceful Sharin Bhatti, and broody Rajat Kapoor discuss philosophy in popular culture. And it is … legen..wait for it…dary.

Here are the musings of a milllenial whilst watching the above linked video.

a) Hmm.. nothing exists in a void. Every creation further creates so on and so forth

b) Man! We actuallly are always preoccupied with ideas that aren’t even our own!

c) HAW, RAJAT DOESN’T WATCH GAME OF THRONES!

d) Nothing is real and we are all in a matrix.

c) We can fix any glitch in the matrix with a hot cup of black coffee. True that.

d) William Irwin is one cool guy..no?

e) Wow, right and wrong is governed by intentions and not outcomes. That makes life easier for me. I am loving this Botcast.

d) I find it cute that Rajat Kapoor cannot relate to millennials

e) OMG! AFLATOON IS PLATO?!

f) Lol, the Raichand family of philosophy. Yay, there is a K3G reference in everything. Buzzfeed India team would approve.

g) Gotta read Will Durant’s story of philosophy. Hmm, better TBR it abhi.

h) Woah, there would be no Dystopian fiction without Plato’s concept of Utopia. Mind=blown

i) So many books and I have no money! FML.

j) Oh Rajat, “What are we doing?” might have been the question that lead to the genesis of philosophy as an entity. So fitting. Great job.

k) Note to self: keeping a warm cup of coffee close to your face makes you look sexy af.

l) “failure should be respected” Yay, respect me world.

m) Only homer I know, Sharin, is yellow and he ain’t a philosopher. Or maybe he is?!

n) Someone needs to write a book that is the best of both worlds: eastern and western philosophy

o) Oh, Terry uncle’s quote is worth reflecting upon:

“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place"

p) “All of us are stuck in an elusive chase of paper money” Ah, the feels Sharin. The feels.

q) Things have meaning.

r) “Free will vs destiny” is basically THE conflict that goes on in Harry potter’s mind throughout the series. Get on this one, William Irwin.

s) OMG! THE WHOLE PLOT OF PAULO COELHO’S ‘THE ALCHEMIST’ IS BASED ON A FOLKLORE FROM BAGHDAD!!

t) Wow @ the idea of embarking on a journey to find gold within. #wanderlust.

u) Don’t know if we are all born with Buddha nature, but we sure are born with Buddha looks.

v) Is this the real life, or is this just fanatsy?

w) I feel you Elliot Alderson. I feel you so hard, bro.

[ehteirik]

Liked on YouTube: "BoTcast Episode 34 - Translated Indian Literature with Smriti Sant" https://youtu.be/6kXj2ZVyklo

[numatamblr]

From Twitter: 同じ理論を抱いているというので親友だと思い込む、実はただひとりでものを言うのが不安だからに過ぎぬとは気が附かぬ。 (再び文芸時評に就いて)— 小林秀雄 botcast (@hideKoba_bot) July 18, 2018

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[naheemc]

Liked on YouTube: BoTCast Episode 15 feat. Kenny Sebastian - Self Help Books https://youtu.be/ioLpaD7S78w

[newsuburbanism]

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[infamousduane-blog]

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