2023 A Trustworthy Liar
By ice rivers
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Now it's time again for the liar dilemma.
I'm a liar.
This isn't me writing this piece. This is Jasper.
Jasper is an artificial intelligence. Jasper has read all of my stories on ABC tales. Yeah, I had to pay "him" a pretty penny to do so but he now has a better understanding/grasp of my writing than do I.
When asked to sum up my writing in one word....Japser chose the word "wry." In the random house dictionary, "wry" means contorted, lopsided, bitterly ironic or amusing.
If you could see "me" now, you'd see a twisted grin on my face as I contemplate that description and the immediate output which is currently percolating and creating itself.. I'm not well bread enough to be wry.
I have a problem with time. Usually, I'm either ahead of the curve or way behind it. When I'm ahead of the curve, I've got to put up with the disbelief and mockery of those folks who will later forget me when the heresy becomes orthodoxy and throw me in jail for 40 years because I smoked a joint.
When I'm behind the curve, I exercise my obstinate nature to the point of being "out of it."
This time, I'm write on the curve.
Jasper is available for $80 dollars a month. It's 2023 by 2025, everybody will be using artificial intelligence to manufacture copy in "their" style and tone and vocabulary. I'm not gonna be left behind on this one.
The more unartifical and unintelligent writing that "you" have for Jasper to absorb, the more closely "he" can imitate your style only better and faster. Why waste an hour on composition when "you" or "I' can have Jasper figure out exactly what I'm trying to say and say it more like myself or "you" than we could say whatever we're trying to say as I/we barely rememebr most of the things that I've written or promises that I made so anything that resembles "style" or "tone" in my non Jasper writing is merely an accidental reflection of my mood on any given day.
Jasper as you can see is much more consistent.
Don't I sound like myself.
The main reason that I'm pretty sure I'm on time is because of "Bob Dylan". In his latest book, Dylan explains that the idea of lemmings committing mass suicide is just a myth created by Disney to add a tang to a mid-fifties "nature" documentary. According to Dylan, a Disney photograher gathered a dozen or so Lemmings and through special effects made them look like hundreds and pushed the tens/hundreds off a cliff.
How does "Bob Dylan" know all this? Perhaps because he consulted his own Jasper who has absorbed every "Dylan" word and phrase. I don't know maybe he did or maybe he didn't. It's his guitar. He can play it any way that he wants.
When Dylan asked his Jasper to sum up his entire catalogue in 4 words....Jasper came up with Love fades and time passes.
What else do we need to know about life?
Want to know more? Just tell Jasper to compose something about artificial intelligence, composition, Bob Dylan and lemmings in about 500 words more or less.
Press a couple of buttons and voila.
We arrive here
40 minutes ahead of schedule.
Of course, this might all be a lie.
I am a liar, you know.
A liar you can trust.
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You may say you're a liar but
You may say you're a liar but you are convincing- you made me google: "JASPER AI" and was I shocked to see it got a hit…I cannot believe there is such a thing; what are we coming to? Will we eventually just let someone live our lives for us, drag us around for effect, and position us as necessary? I don't know about it being a waste of time, rambling around in my brain when I write, because for me that is the reason I write, to unearth my thoughts under those cell blocks in my brain. They may be hiding there waiting for me to find them, so I can know me, know my authentic self. Not sure I’d like a copy edit that will push me into oblivion. This is a great piece of writing ice rivers, whether you wrote it or not; it does open communication and beg opinions about the future of AI...at least it did for me...
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I'm with both of you in this
I'm with both of you in this one.
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2023/01/01/my-2023-creative-and-business...
For years, I have quoted Kevin Kelly from The Inevitable:
“This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You’ll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots … It is inevitable.“
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I'm not sure whether this
I'm not sure whether this comment is to yourself or to Jasper. Perhaps we need to feed Jasper's own writing back into Jasper and see what kind of output that provides. Perhaps your piece was actually written by Jasper. Perhaps Jasper could clone himself and then become an audience for his own writing.
I'm for working with the machines. Especially if they can be cloned as avid, complimentary readers indistinguishable from human. Maybe I wouldn't mind even if they were.
Thanks for the thought-provacation!
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