this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
292 points (97.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

5307 readers
1872 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The more I think about this the more accurate it seems. Prion diseases are incurable because prions turn everything they touch into prions. It's a perfect metaphor for the way generative models work, and also for the effect they seem to be having on society.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ooh I wonder if generative models fed the hallucinations of other models hallucinate faster than those fed regular generative outputs...