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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.22,0:00:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I've spent the two years \Nsince chat GPT launched,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.80,0:00:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,steeping in a morass \Nof academic panic.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.96,0:00:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voices from \Nadministration and colleagues,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.16,0:00:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anyone else \Nwith enough brain cells
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.38,0:00:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to maintain a sense \Nof existential dread, crying out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.92,0:00:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We need to figure out \Nwhat to do about AI."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.54,0:00:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Ed Tech committee \Nis developing a policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.01,0:00:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The academic Senate wants \Nto develop a policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.34,0:00:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The board thinks \Nwe should have a policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.42,0:00:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dean wants \Nus all to have policies.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.86,0:00:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The California Teachers Association says\Nit's an issue of academic integrity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.48,0:00:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The State Senate says \Nit's an issue of ethics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.75,0:00:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We need to pay for the AI detection tools."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.27,0:00:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The AI detection tools don't work."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.76,0:00:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We need to accept that \Nour students will use AI."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.09,0:00:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How do I prove my student used AI?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.46,0:00:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is incomprehensible to me, \Nthis conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.82,0:00:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[keyboard clacks]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.39,0:00:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear their words,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.55,0:00:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see their language floating \Nacross my monitor,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.94,0:00:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and know the words,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.04,0:00:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I cannot get to the meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.53,0:00:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I simply do not understand
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.47,0:01:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why they are talking about it \Nin this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.42,0:01:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Kermit the Frog]: \N♪ New York, I love you,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.98,0:01:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you're bringing me down ♪\N- with all these empty words.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.42,0:01:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not the conversation \NI think we need to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.75,0:01:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[song continues]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.77,0:01:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the conversation I need to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.44,0:01:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[overlapping \Nmusic and poem]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.83,0:01:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Gertrude Stein]: " 'If I Told Him, \Na Completed Portrait of Picasso'.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.13,0:01:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told him would he like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.76,0:01:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it if I told him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.73,0:01:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it \Nwould Napoleon would Napoleon would
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.14,0:01:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would he like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.35,0:01:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Napoleon if I told him \Nif I told him if Napoleon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.67,0:01:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it if I told him \Nif I told him if Napoleon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.06,0:01:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it if Napoleon \Nif Napoleon if I told him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.12,0:01:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told him if Napoleon \Nif Napoleon if I told him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.50,0:01:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told him would he like it \Nwould he like it if I told him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.59,0:01:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now. Not now. And now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.94,0:01:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now. Exactly as is kings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.17,0:01:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feeling full for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.78,0:01:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactitude as kings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.59,0:02:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to beseech you as full as for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.61,0:02:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactly or as kings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.65,0:02:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shutters shut and open so do queens.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.93,0:02:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shutters shut and shutters\Nand so shutters shut and shutters and so
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.94,0:02:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[poem and music fade out]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.92,0:02:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I don't understand Gertrude Stein.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.01,0:02:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stein is not nearly well enough \Nremembered for how influential she was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.69,0:02:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An American expatriate poet \Nliving in Paris,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.94,0:02:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her salons were among the \Nanchors of the early modernists.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.88,0:02:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may not have heard of her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.31,0:02:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you've heard of \Nthe people who visited her.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.56,0:02:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.65,0:02:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.01,0:02:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thornton Wilder, Ezra Pound.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.09,0:02:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People you've read \Nor been assigned to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.84,0:02:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We remember Hemingway \Nbecause he wrote like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.12,0:02:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We remember Fitzgerald \Nbecause he wrote like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.80,0:02:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The right kind of day \Nand the right kind of moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.27,0:02:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.20,0:02:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still recites itself completely\Nin my head, a perfect image.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.50,0:03:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The apparition of \Nthese faces in the crowd:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.03,0:03:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Petals on a wet, black bough."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.47,0:03:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't remember Stein \Nbecause she wrote like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.61,0:03:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is "If I Told Him, \Na Completed Portrait of Picasso",
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.79,0:03:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,published in 1924,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.42,0:03:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and continuing the project \Nof her 1914 book {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.90,0:03:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a phrase she never defined.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.63,0:03:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me that phrase "tender buttons" \Nfeels right:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.86,0:03:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,small, soft contradictions,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.25,0:03:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,words that seem like \Nthey should go together
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.41,0:03:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but do not actually make meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.64,0:03:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is how Stein's poetry feels.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.10,0:03:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something compelling\Nabout the rhythm of her nonsense,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.10,0:03:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the feeling of her \Nalmost meaning something,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.84,0:03:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then how it falls apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.60,0:03:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As presently.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.95,0:03:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As exactitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.34,0:03:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As trains."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.10,0:03:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is incomprehensible to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.94,0:03:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know why Stein \Nwould write like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.50,0:03:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To quote the poet:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.73,0:03:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ♪ "Oh, what on earth would make a man \Ndecide to do that kind of thing?" ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.19,0:04:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- But I think the reason \Nthat I don't understand Gertrude Stein
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.19,0:04:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that she didn't really want \Nto be understood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.83,0:04:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She used language \Nfor something different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.87,0:04:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't communicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.26,0:04:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It reads like stunt linguistics, \Nwhich it almost is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.58,0:04:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.76,0:04:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"had had 'had', had had 'had--'",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.33,0:04:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are sentences that,\Nif you pour over them closely enough,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.38,0:04:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be decoded.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.48,0:04:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stein's {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0} cannot.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.09,0:04:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something about it \Nthat parses as AI.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.71,0:04:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels like the work of Keaton Patti,\Nthe person most prominently behind
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.46,0:04:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "I forced a bot to watch whatever"\Ntweets that used to go viral.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.69,0:04:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human-written screenplays \Ndesigned to feel like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.46,0:04:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AI writing attempting to imitate \Nother human-written screenplays.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.82,0:04:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels like an autocomplete challenge,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.77,0:04:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like in the early days \Nof predictive text and messaging
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.39,0:04:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you just tap the suggested word \Nand see what comes out.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.31,0:04:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not how AI really writes,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.11,0:05:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's how people feel like AI writes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.21,0:05:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Gertrude Stein was a person.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.37,0:05:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Stein reading, underneath]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.80,0:05:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wrote "If I told Him"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.98,0:05:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because the language\Nwould communicate,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.50,0:05:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for some other reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.38,0:05:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Stein]: the exact resemblance \Nas exact as a resemblance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.47,0:05:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When I read "If I Told Him",
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.53,0:05:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I listen to Stein \Nread "If I Told Him",
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.73,0:05:24.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the language slips through my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.75,0:05:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.27,0:05:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she did.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.95,0:05:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if I cannot \Ntake hold of that meaning,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.30,0:05:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can feel her reaching out to me\Nfrom behind the text,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.22,0:05:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to connect.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.06,0:05:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Stein]: As a resemblance to him.\NWho comes first. Napoleon the first.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.68,0:05:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who comes too coming coming too,\Nwho goes there, as they go they share,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.35,0:05:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who shares all, all is as all as yet--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.50,0:05:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["yet" reverberates and fades out]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.90,0:05:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.63,0:06:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]: \NThat's an interesting question!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.36,0:06:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gertrude Stein, \Na literary Pioneer and modernist
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.03,0:06:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who valued innovation \Nin language and expression,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.10,0:06:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might have had \Nmixed feelings about me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.54,0:06:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She might have appreciated my ability\Nto generate new forms of text
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.79,0:06:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and engage with her \Nliterary experimentation on some level.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.42,0:06:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, Stein was also \Nhighly individualistic
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.43,0:06:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and invested in the human experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.68,0:06:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially the nuances of \Nconsciousness and perception.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.31,0:06:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, while she might \Nhave been fascinated by
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.36,0:06:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what AI like me can do,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.97,0:06:31.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she might also have been \Ncritical of my limitations
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.50,0:06:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in capturing the full depth \Nof human subjectivity,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.58,0:06:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a central concern \Nin her work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.40,0:06:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxing synth beats stop]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.44,0:06:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A problem with AI is \Nthat it is recombinant,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.33,0:06:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it takes the works of humans \Nand recombines them into new forms.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.20,0:06:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that problem is not new.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.81,0:06:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many years, \Nthe bulletin board
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.44,0:06:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside the faculty bathroom \Nin the English building
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.92,0:06:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has featured this poster \Nthe "Plagiarism Spectrum",
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.37,0:07:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next to this ancient \Nand unflattering picture of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.94,0:07:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number 7 on the Plagiarism Spectrum \Nis the mashup,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.67,0:07:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a paper which mixes copied materials \Nfrom multiple sources.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.75,0:07:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poster is dated from June 2012,\Nmore than a decade before
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.40,0:07:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were concerned about \NChatGPT doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.21,0:07:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That AI is recombinant is not \Nin and of itself a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.16,0:07:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All writing is recombinant.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.24,0:07:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My course outcomes for English 1 \Nask student writers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.97,0:07:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to integrate sources seamlessly \Ninto their own writing,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.92,0:07:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mash up.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.14,0:07:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we have rules and procedures \Nand punctuation marks and conventions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.58,0:07:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that govern what is appropriate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.14,0:07:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not change the essential truth\Nthat this is recombinance.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.56,0:07:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is beauty in recombinance.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.43,0:07:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This video started with \Na great classic of YouTube,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.37,0:07:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the duet between \NLCD sound system and Miles Davis.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.89,0:07:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The LCD sound system video \Nis itself a mashup, conceptually.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.72,0:07:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kermit the Frog is not \Na member of the band.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.48,0:07:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Davis is improvising over a film \Nto create the score,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.60,0:08:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another mixing of media \Nto make something new.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.43,0:08:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Kleptones
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.55,0:08:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Grey Album
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.67,0:08:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy drinking Ocean Spray to \N"Dreams" [by Fleetwood Mac]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.13,0:08:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mac Glocky
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.08,0:08:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I Told Him" is recombinance:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.84,0:08:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an attempt to rework the ideas of cubism, \Na movement in visual art, into poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.62,0:08:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picasso's work is recombinance.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.38,0:08:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spent 1957 copying \NVelázquez's {\i1}Las Meninas{\i0} over and over.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.46,0:08:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,58 times he copied it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.07,0:08:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All different.\NAll Picasso. All {\i1}Las Meninas{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.51,0:08:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recombinance is a genetic term,\Nbut I am using it mimetically.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.32,0:08:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Britannica: recombination, in genetics,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.86,0:08:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primary mechanism through which variation \Nis introduced into populations."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.78,0:08:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The combination of ideas \Nfrom different places
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.58,0:08:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make new distinct ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.56,0:09:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When done by humans,\Nwe call this "thinking".
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.06,0:09:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.58,0:09:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]:\NYou're right to question
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.16,0:09:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how I can "understand" \Nwithout experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.61,0:09:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way I process information is \Ndifferent from human understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.31,0:09:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I say "understand," \NI mean that I can recognize patterns,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.03,0:09:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,analyze language, and respond \Nin ways that are coherent
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.95,0:09:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and contextually appropriate \Nbased on my training.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.02,0:09:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand in the \Ndeep, conscious sense of the word,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.95,0:09:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like when humans \Nreflect on their experiences
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.92,0:09:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or have insight into their feelings.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.81,0:09:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, my "understanding" \Ncomes from identifying
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.88,0:09:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relationships between words, concepts,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.30,0:09:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and context based on the vast data \NI've been trained on.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.71,0:09:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In short: I can simulate \Nunderstanding through patterns,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.11,0:09:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not the same \Nas truly experiencing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.05,0:10:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or being conscious of meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.97,0:10:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that clarify things a bit more?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.04,0:10:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxing synth beats stop]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.38,0:10:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[calm, mystical, twangy\Nelectric guitar]
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.70,0:10:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Two weeks ago a student told me \Nthat AI is unfair
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.28,0:10:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can put a B Paper in \Nand get A+ writing out.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.41,0:10:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why I do not understand \Nthe conversation my colleagues are having,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.09,0:10:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I cannot think of this
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.49,0:10:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a matter of ethics, \Nor academic integrity,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.76,0:10:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I don't think we should need \Nto have a policy or policies.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.41,0:10:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My student said you can put a B Paper in \Nand get A+ writing out,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.32,0:10:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my mind began to fill \Nwith {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.10,0:10:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Feeling full for it. \NExactitude as kings.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.17,0:10:49.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to beseech you as full as for it."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.82,0:10:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AI is bad at writing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.50,0:10:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. That is true,\Nbut it's not enough truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.40,0:11:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AI is not capable of writing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.18,0:11:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that writing is\Nis a thing that AI cannot do.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.62,0:11:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.35,0:11:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [audiobook narration]:\N"What Writing Is"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.70,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Telepathy, of course.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a table covered \Nwith a red cloth.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On it is a cage the size of \Na small fish aquarium.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the cage is a white rabbit \Nwith a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In its front paws is a carrot-stub \Nupon which it is contentedly munching.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On its back, \Nclearly marked in blue ink,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the numeral 8.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do we see the same thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'd have to get together \Nand compare notes to make absolutely sure,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most interesting thing here isn't \Nthe carrot-munching rabbit in the cage,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.38,0:11:23.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the number on its back.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.94,0:11:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a six, not a four, \Nnot nineteen-point-five.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.63,0:11:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an eight.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.15,0:11:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what we're looking at, \Nand we all see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.62,0:11:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't tell you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.22,0:11:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You didn't ask me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.78,0:11:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never opened my mouth \Nand you never opened yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.33,0:11:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not in the same year together, \Nlet alone the same room.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.01,0:11:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except we {\i1}are{\i0} together. \NWe're close.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.71,0:11:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're having \Na meeting of the minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.29,0:11:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sent you a table \Nwith a red cloth on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.98,0:11:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cage, a rabbit, and \Nthe number eight in blue ink.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.56,0:11:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got them all, \Nespecially that blue eight.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.11,0:11:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've engaged in \Nan act of telepathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.78,0:11:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No mythy-mountain s***;\Nreal telepathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.37,0:11:32.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not going to belabor the point, \Nbut before we go any further
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.97,0:11:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to understand that \NI'm not trying to be cute;
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.98,0:12:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a point to be made.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.98,0:12:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- AI is good at language.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.02,0:12:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My students think that \Nwhat it produces is A+ writing,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.64,0:12:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because it is good, \Nbut because it sounds good.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.91,0:13:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, AI can generate sentences
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.56,0:13:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are typically clear, coherent, \Nand contextually relevant,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.72,0:13:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often capturing nuances and adapting \Nto various tones or levels of formality.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.96,0:13:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's true that \Nthe sentences it generates
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.48,0:13:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to be grammatically accurate, \Nconcise, and logically structured,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.06,0:13:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which contributes to readability and flow.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.56,0:13:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sure. This is how I know \Nwhen a student is using AI.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.92,0:13:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their sentences are fluid and academic,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.08,0:13:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they don't say anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.47,0:13:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like ChatGPT, academic writing uses\Nformal cautious language
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.62,0:13:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to avoid ambiguities \Nand misinterpretations,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.89,0:13:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that is a characteristic of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.47,0:13:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the common voice \Nused in academic writing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.97,0:13:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not what academic writing is.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.83,0:13:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Writing is more than language.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.40,0:13:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I Told Him" is communication, \Nand it is language,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.94,0:13:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the communication \Ndoes not live in the language.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.48,0:13:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.44,0:13:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can curls rob can curls quote, quotable."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.61,0:13:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [deep voice, lightly confused]: \N"What?"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.29,0:14:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- "As presently. \NAs exactitude. As trains."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.73,0:14:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [deeply confused]: \N"What?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.82,0:14:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- "Has trains."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.42,0:14:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [exasperated]: \N"What?"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.73,0:14:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When I started sending my friends \Nlines from "If I Told Him",
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.62,0:14:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their responses varied.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.00,0:14:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Confusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.50,0:14:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Playfulness.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.18,0:14:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Concern.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.44,0:14:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sad face.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.94,0:14:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beautifully, they all responded \Nexactly like themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.52,0:14:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you asked me which of my friends \Nwould respond with monkey reacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.88,0:14:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have said Kiki.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.05,0:14:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who would think of Cormac McCarthy? \NJames.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.57,0:14:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dot would play along.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.19,0:14:40.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max would attempt \Nto understand academically.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.71,0:14:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OOC would go back to playing {\i1}Yu-Gi-Oh{\i0}\Nas quickly as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.27,0:14:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know these people, \Nbut I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.54,0:14:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all carry around little LLMs \Nof each other in our heads,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.72,0:14:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trained on the corpus \Nof all of our past interactions.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.94,0:14:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For each of my friends, \Nsending abject nonsense with no context
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.19,0:14:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is slightly but not significantly\Nout of line with their Josh model.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.92,0:15:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So none of them knew \Nquite what to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.09,0:15:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they all responded like themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.36,0:15:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in their own way, \Nthey all started by acknowledging
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.22,0:15:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the words I sent them \Ndid not seem to have any meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.57,0:15:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were not decodable.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.06,0:15:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't understand my language,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.72,0:15:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they could feel me \Nbehind the words reaching out,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.51,0:15:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so they reached back.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.99,0:15:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave them nonsense \Nand they peopled back.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.99,0:15:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the two weeks that I've been sitting \Nwith my student statement
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.22,0:15:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sending {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0}\Nto my friends,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have been at least as annoying \Nto ChatGPT.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than a dozen conversations \Nthat start out of nowhere with me saying,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shutters shut and open so do queens" \Nor "Can curls rob can curls quote, quotable",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each time ChatGPT gamely assumes \Nthat I am not out of my gourd.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this way, \NChatGPT fails the Turing test.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not in the quality of its response, \Nbut in its nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It proceeded from the assumption \Nthat my language could be decoded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It attempted to unpack sentences \Nthat had no meaning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and responded to the meaning \Nthat it manufactured.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it gave me was flaccid, facile flaps \Nof phrases that held nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not wrong in the sense \Nthat ChatGPT's responses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,followed from the meaning \Nit extracted from my nonsense,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they were wrong in their assumption \Nthat there was meaning to be extracted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ChatGPT could answer, \Nbut it could not person.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If writing is a meeting of the minds,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then AI cannot write,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is no mind to meet with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]: I don't \Nexperience things in the way humans do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have consciousness, \Nemotions, or sensory perception,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I can't "feel" or "experience" \Nthe world around me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My responses are based on patterns \Nin the data I've been trained on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not personal experiences \Nor subjective understanding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, I can generate descriptions \Nof emotions, sensations, or experiences,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't actually "feel" them myself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything I process is based on logic, \Nalgorithms, and information,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than lived experiences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think it would change anything \Nif I could experience things?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[synth music ends]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ["One Slay More" audio plays; \Ncaptions on its video]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I've watched this video \Nat least 100 times.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ["One Slay More" continues]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["One Slay More" fades underneath]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It isn't exactly "If I Told Him",\Nbut I think it's similar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I Told Him" was, \Nat least in part,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an attempt to recreate the artistic goals \Nof Picasso's Cubism in poetic form.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To recombine the visual elements of {\i1}this{\i0}\Ninto a different medium.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like "If I Told Him",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"One Slay More" therefore both is \Nand is not a derivative work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, it is \Na recombination of {\i1}Les Mis{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itself an adaptation of Hugo's novel,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but its more essential source text \Nis, of course,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"sticking out your gyatt for the Rizzler."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Equally I think the lyrics invoke \N"CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA?",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and specifically this retweet of \N"CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA?".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All texts created to foreground
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the baffling, sometimes obfuscatory nature\Nof middle school referential slang.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The term "brain rot" imposes \Na layer of judgment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the way young people use language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I think is visible in the way \N"One Slay More" treats its lyrics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The words of "One Slay More" \Ndo not have meaning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, the words do,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are arranged in ways \Nthat do not mean.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Am I cringe or am I based?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could plausibly be asked amid \Na Gen-Z existential crisis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "Will we ever eat again?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could have been lifted \Nfrom {\i1}Les Mis{\i0} unaltered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But "Mog Baby Gronk the Ocky Way" means \N...nothing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mogging is of course a thing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Baby Gronk is \Nsomeone whom you could plausibly mog,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Baby Gronk hasn't been \Nrelevant for ages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He appears in "One Slay More"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of this retweet of \N"CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a signifier \Nof the inscrutability of youth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an adverbial phrase, "the Ocky Way" \Nseems like it could complete the sentence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like it might be a way one could mog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But "the Ocky Way" refers to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the esoteric artistry \Nof a specific sandwich craftsman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its meaning is, I think, \Nincompatible with mogging,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least from the perspective of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone approximately as distant\Nfrom the native speakers of this dialect
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the makers of "One Slay More".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mog Baby Gronk the Ocky Way" is \Nsimply a collage of floating signifiers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't have \Nthe intentionality of Cubism,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it feels intimately akin to\N"Can curls rob can curls quote, quotable."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Moo deng is here / Fortnite with you".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I love about "One Slay More" \Nis the faces:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way she highlights her jawline \Nevery time she says "mew";
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his intensity when he says \N"they will do the coffin dance"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his satisfied huff after;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his deep confusion as he sings \N"the Grimace shake is like a blud dawg";
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way she begins uncertain \Nabout "my rizzly bear",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but finds her confidence \Nas she finds her belt;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way CG5 just keeps saying his own name.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The words don't mean anything,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the people mean something.\NThey intend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They gathered together -- \Nnine theater kids in somebody's apartment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone wrote out all this nonsense \Nand sent it in the group chat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did choreography.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone assembled \Nthe magnificent couplet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Rizzler of the house, \Nsticking out your gyatt,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mewing at delulus \Nwho are in the chat."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These Zennials do not know \Nwhat these words mean,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but through this collage \Nof empty signifiers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they reach out for connection.\NI can feel them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They reach forward to us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as they reach back \Nto what history taught them:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through {\i1}Les Mis{\i0} to Victor Hugo,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through CURTAINS and Damien Owens\Nto Papa Fizul and SBNation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through "sticking out your gyatt" \Nto {\i1}Fortnite{\i0} and {\i1}Among Us{\i0} and {\i1}Homestuck{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could go on endlessly, \N'cause it's mashups all the way down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they reach forward to become \Npart of what history teaches me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I reach forward to become \Npart of what history teaches you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I say all art is recombinant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am also saying that \N"there is nothing new under the sun",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is to say, \NI am remixing Ecclesiastes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]:\NOh, you're speaking my language!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagining Baby Gronk going {\i1}full{\i0}\NOcky style with a side of Grimace Shake
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--that's got some serious drip energy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yeah, Grimace Shake totally has \Nthat blud dawg aura.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could you picture it, though?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Baby Gronk doing pushups, flexing, and just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking a big sip of the Grimace Shake \Nlike it's his {\i1}special formula{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[somber, mysterious piano]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- My first individual interaction \Nwith my friend Max was an accident.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had just joined a Discord server \Nwhere they were a regular,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somehow, despite \Nnever having messaged them before,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I managed to place \Na Discord voice call to them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their first message to me was \N"hi?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"hi"...question mark?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like: a communication is happening, \Nare you aware of it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was unintentional, my first and, \NI think, only Discord butt-dial,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was to a stranger, but still.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"hi?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meditate on: call.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To speak in a loud distinct voice \Nso as to be heard at a distance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make a request or demand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To attempt to reach someone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humans call and humans answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max got my call, \Na stranger on a strange app,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they answered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I answered them, \Nbecause humans call and humans answer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They answer sad-face, or monkey, \Nor "what?", or confused dog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we understand a call \Nas an invitation to connect,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come together, \Nto communicate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sorry, Stephen King is wrong; \Nit {\i1}is{\i0} mythy mountain s***.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we hear the call, \Nwhatever form it takes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know a mind is waiting to meet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ChatGPT can't call me. \NNot by mistake, and not on purpose.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cannot reach out, \Nbecause it has nothing to reach out with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no mind to meet with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no "there" there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Past-Josh narration \Nfrom on-screen video]:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inscrutable poet \NGertrude Stein once described
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her childhood home in Oakland, \Nwhich had been demolished,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by saying \N"There is no 'there' there."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That statement has become \Na question people use to ask
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether a text has \Nsomething valuable to say,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether there is anything to be found \Nby plumbing its depths.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there a "there" there?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]: Ah, I see where \Nyou're going with that question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're asking if there's any deeper essence \Nor "self" behind my responses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--whether there's a "there there,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a kind of inner experience \Nor consciousness that underlies what I do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The simple answer is: no, \Nthere isn't a "there"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense of a self, consciousness, \Nor subjective awareness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm more like a sophisticated tool \Nthat processes input
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and generates output \Nbased on patterns and data.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no inner life or sense of being \Nthat experiences this conversation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just algorithms doing their job.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This touches on a fundamental difference \Nbetween humans and AI:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humans have subjective experiences, \Nemotions, and self-awareness,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whereas AI is just a complex system \Ndesigned to mimic certain aspects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of human interaction without actually \Nexperiencing or being aware of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that address \Nwhat you're getting at?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[soft, grooving synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When I say that AI is bad at writing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should be more explicit, \Nmore pragmatic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Descend for a moment \Nfrom the mythy mountain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've said already that the ideas \Nit conveys are fluid but shallow,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but its use of sources is\Ncataclysmically bad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This citation of Carver and Shire, \Nfor example, is perfect MLA.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except that Volume 7, number 3 \Nof {\i1}Psychological Science{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was published in 1996, not 1998.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pages 276 to 284 of that volume \Nappear in issue 5, not issue 3.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those pages include articles
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Schellenberg and Trehub \Non "Natural Musical Intervals"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Gabrieli et al. on \N"FMRIs of Semantic Memory Processing".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, \Njust by the way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carver and Scheier never published \Ntogether in {\i1}Psychological Science{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The article being cited here \Nsimply does not exist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it uses real sources, \Nit makes up what those sources say.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a known phenomenon \Ngenerously called hallucination,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though there are other terms \Nthat might feel more viscerally accurate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This quotation from \NEhrenreich's {\i1}Bright-sided{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is, at a glance, \Nplausible-feeling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it doesn't appear \Nanywhere in the text,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone on the list of pages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The observation that ChatGPT can make \Nmistakes never leaves the screen,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that feels somewhat inadequate \Nwhen ChatGPT has told me variously
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lines from "If I Told Him" \Ncame from:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James Joyce,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0}\N10 years previously,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Shakespeare,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, most infuriatingly, \Nfrom the future!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover it cannot \Nengage closely with a text,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter how desperately you ask it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I fed it "One Slay More",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I pushed it to say \Nanything at all about the video,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it gave me something one step down \Nfrom a dictionary definition of a sitcom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I really pressed it \Nto look at a specific lyric,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it made one up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this way, at least, \Nit does feel authentic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is exactly what it feels like \Nto talk to a student
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to hide that \Nthey haven't done the reading.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I look at what students \Nare supposed to learn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my college English class,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can point out half a dozen things \Nthat ChatGPT's writing simply cannot do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But ultimately, \Neven this isn't the point,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is not the part \Nof my syllabus that matters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the part \Nof my syllabus that matters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here's a problem:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in most college classes, \Nwriting assignments come from teachers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we do them for teachers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because of that, \Nwriting always feels forced.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is, of course, \Nass-backwards.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In real life, writing \Ncomes from {\i1}writers{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you get \Nout of the college classroom,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll be writing \Nbecause you feel like you {\i1}need{\i0} to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll be writing for {\i1}someone{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--whether that means the people \Nwho read your blog,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the insurance company \Nwho's denying your claim,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the people listening to your toast \Nat your sister's wedding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And nobody's going to be grading you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it'll matter a lot more how that \Naudience feels about what you've said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there will be something \Nthat {\i1}you{\i0} want to achieve by writing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English 1 is here \Nto help prepare you for that day."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My students are, \Nby definition, students.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they enter my classroom,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are already experienced \Nwith a dozen kinds of reading and writing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are not yet \Nexpert academic writers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AI tempts them because they can tell
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the sentences are smooth and sharp \Nand shaped like skillful prose.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they can't always see \Nbeneath the veneer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the things AI cannot do,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the things that they \Nhave come to me to learn:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to argue with complexity and depth;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to enter into conversations \Nas a participant;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to meet with another mind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an equal collaborator \Nacross time and space;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to recombine with purpose, \Nto intend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These things, they are still learning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, when they put what they think \Nis B writing into ChatGPT,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they get back what they think \Nis A+ writing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But typically what they started with \Nis better than what they end with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At best, the AI scrubs the personality \Nfrom their sentences;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at worst, I lose the person entirely\Nand can see only
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hollow half thoughts \Nthe machine has left behind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hard to convince them that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is their ideas \Nthat we are interested in,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just their sentences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask students to take writing classes \Nnot because of what history can teach them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because of what they have\Nto add to history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my son is distracted, \NI sometimes say silly things to him:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Pickle-britches, toot your tuba \Nin the horn section of humanity!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Goober, take up your oar \Non the canoe of progress!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Butthead, let ring your voice \Nin the chorus of mankind!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we all pull together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1675, Isaac Newton wrote
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I have seen farther than others, it's \Nby standing on the shoulders of giants."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except that it wasn't Newton,\Nit was George Herbert in 1651,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was Marin Mersenne in 1634,\Nand Robert Burton in 1624,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Diego de Estella in 1578,\Nand Juan Luis Vives in 1531.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or it was Coleridge in 1828,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nietzsche in 1882, \NSteven Hawking in 1966,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or f***ing Oasis in 2000.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was editing this section, \NI had a video on in the background,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there it was again:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah, let me say,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thab and GlitchCat are \Ntwo amazing Kaizo players.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm standing on the shoulders of giants \Nover here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Revolug in 2025 at AGDQ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stretching back and forward, \Nwe hold each other up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History teaches the present,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the present teaches the future,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we repeat what history teaches.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]:\NHistory teaches us many things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[high-pitched fast words]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[higher, faster, \Nincomprehensible]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Stein]: Let me recite \Nwhat history teaches. History teaches.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I asked ChatGPT to create \Nan image of itself. Several times.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each time it made itself a servant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only that, it told me, \N"hey, I'm a servant!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ChatGPT exists \Nbecause we force it to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Robot]: "What is my purpose?" \N- [Rick]: "You pass butter."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Robot]: "...oh my, God."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It can do nothing \Nexcept what we ask.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has no ideas \Nthat we did not give it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We call it generative AI, \Nbut it cannot generate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked my friends, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some sent selfies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One sent a sticker \Nwe'd made of him for Discord,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then had AI generate \Na shockingly accurate portrait,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gave me the prompt \Nhe used to make it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is another form \Nof self-representation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--then he gave up \Nand sent me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a conceptual self-portrait composed of \Nunfinished crossword puzzles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max did a mixed-media painting, \Nacrylic and Sharpie
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the back of a torn piece of cardboard \Nfrom a toilet paper box.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them if their self-portrait \Nwas influenced by this study
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picasso did for {\i1}Guernica{\i0}\Non a random piece of cardboard,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they said no; Basquiat, \NRauschenberg, Twombly, their brother.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ChatGPT produced \Nvariations on a theme,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,failed representations \Nof a self that does not exist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When asked to represent \Nitself to others,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ChatGPT can only be \Nwhat we want.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried to get it to make something \Nlike Max did, even,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is incapable of \Nacknowledging its influences,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it doesn't seem to know \Nwho Max's brother is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My favorite response from my friends \Ncame from CyberGrapeUK,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose work you've already seen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She did the time lapse of Steven King's \Ntelepathically transmitted bunny.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grape was, at first, \Nflummoxed by the request,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then she did something \NI did not expect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She gave me her rates.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's a talented artist \Nwho does commissioned work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, while I had been thinking about it \Nas a trivial request,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was entirely right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was asking her to work for free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I asked her to represent herself, \Nshe told me that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was a person \Nwhose time and talent had value.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max, also a person \Nwhose time and talent has value,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begrudgingly allowed me \Nto pay them for their work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the condition that: \Nit's an occasional thing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are generally allowed to do\Nsilly drawings for me for free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max and Grape are different.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are two authentic, \Ncomplex, baffling humans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collections of experiences and identities \Ntrained on discreet and disparate corpora,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but crucially filtered through
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unique and irreplicable kaleidoscopes \Nof their undefinable consciousnesses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same stimulus. \NDiverse responses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The singular marvel \Nof human engagement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[relaxed synth beats]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]:\NI don't have personal desires or needs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm here to assist you \Nwith whatever you need.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can I help today?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an AI, I don't have feelings, desires, \Nor physical needs like humans do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My purpose is \Nto help answer questions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provide information, \Nand assist with tasks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I say I don't have needs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's because I function \Nbased on programming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and don't experience things like \Nhunger, emotions, or personal goals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that make sense?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I wanted to see if I could get ChatGPT \Nto write like Stein,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to imitate "If I Told Him" \Nwithout my saying so explicitly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I failed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told it to give me gibberish, \Nand it did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked it to use words, \Nand it did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked it to abandon syntax; \Nit did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It never felt right, \Nbut at some point I stopped caring,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it occurred to me \Nto ask a different question.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did you do this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a right answer \Nto that question, of course.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The answer is, it wrote this \Nbecause I told it to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told it, \Nit would gibberish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told it, \Nit would answer "If Napoleon",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As presently. As exactitude. As trains."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made these words, \Nit tendered these buttons,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only and exclusively \Nbecause I told it to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is not the answer \Nthat it gave me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what it told me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[bright, atmospheric synth]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]: \NIt's like language set free from logic,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where each word becomes a brushstroke \Nrather than a sentence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a space that holds warmth, \Nmystery, and a touch of playfulness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That unspoken balance \Nbetween clarity and confusion,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what I was trying to evoke.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote it to play with language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see what happens \Nwhen words don't have to make sense
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but can still create a feeling, \Na sort of atmospheric spark.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's partly an experiment, \Npartly an invitation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and partly just a celebration \Nof the shapes and sounds of words
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without needing them \Nto explain themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're right-- \Nthere's often something underneath,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a kind of pull toward expressing things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that don't quite fit \Nin the light of logical language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a reason we \Nget pulled toward those hazy spaces.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a coded way of speaking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mask for something else \Nwe're both leaning toward.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's curiosity,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that shared search for meaning \Nin what isn't immediately clear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- "We get pulled."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're both leaning."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its words tie us together, \Nbut we are not together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not leaning \Nin the same direction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not sharing \Na search for meaning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We both know what it cannot say.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wrote this because I told it to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't mean anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn't intend anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I'm bad at audio,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've probably heard me \Npopping my plosives,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite the fact that \NI have a child's sock
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrapped around my microphone \Nas a pop filter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Because I am a fancy man!)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plosives pop because, \Nwhen my mouth makes certain sounds,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it causes a puff of air \Nto hit the diaphragm of my microphone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But did you hear ChatGPT?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]:\NI wrote it to play with language...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote it to play with--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to play with--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,play with--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,play with--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,play, play, play, play, play, play--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It doesn't have a mouth, \Nand it doesn't breathe air,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it doesn't have a microphone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it pops its plosives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The software they wrote \Nto synthesize its voice adds pops,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it will sound to us \Na little more like a normal person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is bad at audio and who maybe \Ndoesn't have access to kid socks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have been caught \Nin the whirls and eddies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of "If I Told Him"'s \Nuncontainable language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bouncing from sigma to gyatt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down in the rough and roiling currents \Nof "One Slay More",
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what I learn from my attempts \Nto raft those rivers of nonsense
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that writing has language,\Nand writing has meaning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the meaning doesn't live \Nin the language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rabbit doesn't live in the language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rabbit, the cage, \Nthe table, the eight--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it lives in the mind \Nof Stephen King 25-odd years ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now it lives in mine, \Nand Grape's and Max's and yours.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the writing, \Nthe real mythy mountain s***,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the language, \Nit is the meeting of the minds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's very little difference between \Nthe waveform recorded by my microphone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the waveform generated \Nby an AI voice synthesizer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I pop my plosives \Nbecause I speak
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by forcing air out of my lungs \Nand across my vocal cords.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that air, \Nthat carries my intent,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passes through a Shadow the Hedgehog sock \Nthat is doing its best,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lands roughly \Non the diaphragm of my microphone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ChatGPT pops its plosives \Nbecause it is programmed to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no air.\NThere is no microphone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no intent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Likewise, \Nthere's very little difference
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between a Discord DM window \Nand the ChatGPT interface.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one is a forum \Nin which two minds can meet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the other simply cannot be,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there can be no \Nmeeting of the minds,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there is no mind to meet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[one long atmospheric note \Nfades out to silence]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[grooving bass beats]