[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I've spent the two years \Nsince chat GPT launched, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,steeping in \Na morass of academic panic. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voices from \Nadministration and colleagues, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anyone else \Nwith enough brain cells Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to maintain a sense of existential dread,\Ncrying out, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"we need to figure out \Nwhat to do about AI." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Ed Tech committee \Nis developing a policy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The academic Senate wants \Nto develop a policy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The board thinks we should have a policy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dean wants us all to have policies. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The California Teachers Association says\Nit's an issue of academic integrity. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The State Senate says \Nit's an issue of ethics. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to pay for the AI detection tools. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The AI detection tools don't work. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to accept that \Nour students will use AI. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I prove my student used AI? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is incomprehensible to me, \Nthis conversation. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear their words, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see their language floating \Nacross my monitor, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and know the words, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I cannot get to the meaning Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I simply do not understand Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why they are talking about it in this way. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[soft piano music] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Kermit the Frog]: \N♪ New York, I love you, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you're bringing me down ♪\N--with all these empty words. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ♪ New York, I love you, \Nbut you're bringing me down ♪ Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music continues underneath] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This is not the conversation \NI think we need to have. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the conversation I need to have. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[overlapping music and poem recitation] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Gertrude Stein]: " 'If I Told Him, \Na Completed Portrait of Picasso'. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told him would he like it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it if I told him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it \Nwould Napoleon would Napoleon would Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would he like it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Napoleon if I told him \Nif I told him if Napoleon. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it if I told him \Nif I told him if Napoleon. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would he like it if Napoleon \Nif Napoleon if I told him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told him if Napoleon \Nif Napoleon if I told him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I told him would he like it \Nwould he like it if I told him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not now. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactly as as kings. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feeling full for it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactitude as kings. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to beseech you as full as for it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactly or as kings. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shutters shut and open so do queens. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shutters shut and shutters\Nand so shutters shut and shutters and so Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[poem and music fade out] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand Gertrude Stein. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stein is not nearly well enough \Nremembered for how influential she was. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An American expatriate poet \Nliving in Paris, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her salons were among the \Nanchors of the early modernists. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may not have heard of her, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you've heard of \Nthe people who visited her. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thorton Wilder, Ezra Pound. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People you've read \Nor been assigned to read. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We remember Hemingway \Nbecause he wrote like this. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We remember Fitzgerald \Nbecause he wrote like this. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The right kind of day \Nand the right kind of moment, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still recites itself completely\Nin my head, a perfect image. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The apparition of \Nthese faces in the crowd Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,petals on a wet, black bough." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't remember Stein \Nbecause she wrote like this. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is "If I Told Him, \Na Completed Portrait of Picasso", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,published in 1924, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and continuing the project \Nof her 1914 book {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0}, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a phrase she never defined. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me that phrase "tender buttons" \Nfeels right: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,small, soft contradictions, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,words that seem like \Nthey should go together Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but do not actually make meaning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is how Stein's poetry feels. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something compelling\Nabout the rhythm of her nonsense, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the feeling of her \Nalmost meaning something, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then how it falls apart. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As presently. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As exactitude. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As trains." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is incomprehensible to me. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know why Stein \Nwould write like this. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To quote the poet: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ♪ "Oh, what on earth would make a man \Ndecide to do that kind of thing?" ♪ Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- But I think the reason \Nthat I don't understand Gertrude Stein Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that she didn't really want \Nto be understood. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She used language for something different. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't communicate. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It reads like stunt linguistics, \Nwhich it almost is. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"had had 'had', had had 'had--'", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are sentences that, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you pour over them closely enough, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be decoded. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stein's {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0} cannot. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something about it \Nthat parses as AI. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels like the work of Katon Patty,\Nthe person most prominently behind Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "I forced a bot to watch whatever"\Ntweets that used to go viral. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Human-written screenplays \Ndesigned to feel like Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AI writing attempting to imitate \Nother human-written screenplays. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels like an autocomplete challenge, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like in the early days \Nof predictive text and messaging Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you just tap the suggested word \Nand see what comes out. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not how AI really writes, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's how people feel like AI writes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Gertrude Stein was a person. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Stein's recitation begins again,\Nunderneath] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wrote "If I told Him" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because the language\Nwould communicate, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for some other reason. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Stein reading]: "to exact resemblance Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the exact resemblance \Nas exact as a resemblance" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When I read "If I Told Him", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I listen to Stein \Nread "If I Told Him", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the language slips through my mind. 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,,But she did. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if I cannot \Ntake hold of that meaning, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can feel her reaching out to me\Nfrom behind the text, trying to connect. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Stein reading "If I Told Him"]\N"As a resemblance to him. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who comes first. Napoleon the first. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who comes too coming coming too, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who goes there, as they go they share, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who shares all, all is as all as yet-- \N["yet" reverberates and fades out] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[surreal tonal music] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]: \NThat's an interesting question! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gertrude Stein, \Na literary Pioneer and modernist Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who valued innovation \Nin language and expression, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might have had mixed feelings about me. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She might have appreciated my ability\Nto generate new forms of text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and engage with her \Nliterary experimentation on some level. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, Stein was also \Nhighly individualistic Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and invested in the human experience, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially the nuances of \Nconsciousness and perception. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, while she might \Nhave been fascinated by Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what AI like me can do, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she might also have been \Ncritical of my limitations Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in capturing the full depth \Nof human subjectivity, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a central concern \Nin her work. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A problem with AI is \Nthat it is recombinant, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it takes the works of humans \Nand recombines them into new forms. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that problem is not new. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many years the bulletin board Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside the faculty bathroom \Nin the English building Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has featured this poster \N"the Plagiarism Spectrum", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next to this ancient \Nand unflattering picture of me. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,#7 on the Plagiarism Spectrum \Nis the mashup, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a paper which mixes copied materials \Nfrom multiple sources. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poster is dated from June 2012,\Nmore than a decade before Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were concerned about \NChatGPT doing it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That AI is recombinant is not \Nin and of itself a problem. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All writing is recombinant. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My course outcomes for English 1 \Nask student writers Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to integrate sources seamlessly \Ninto their own writing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--to mash up. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we have rules and procedures \Nand punctuation marks and conventions Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that govern what is appropriate Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not change the essential truth\Nthat this is recombinance. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is beauty in recombinance. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This video started with \Na great classic of YouTube: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the duet between \NLCD sound system and Miles Davis. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The LCD sound system video \Nis itself a mashup, conceptually; Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kermit the Frog is not \Na member of the band. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Davis is improvising over a film \Nto create the score, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another mixing of media \Nto make something new. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Kleptones Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Grey Album Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy drinking Ocean Spray to \N"Dreams" [by Fleetwood Mac] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mac Glocky Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I Told Him" is recombinance: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an attempt to rework the ideas of cubism, \Na movement in visual art, into poetry. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picasso's work is recombinant. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He spent 1957 copying \NVelázquez's {\i1}Las Meninas{\i0} over and over. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,58 times he copied it. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All different, \Nall Picasso, all {\i1}Las Meninas{\i0}. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recombinance is a genetic term,\Nbut I am using it mimetically. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Britannica": recombination, in genetics, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primary mechanism through which variation \Nis introduced into populations. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The combination of ideas \Nfrom different places Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make new distinct ideas. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When done by humans,\Nwe call this thinking. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [ChatGPT femme voice]:\NYou're right to question Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how I can "understand" \Nwithout experience. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way I process information is \Ndifferent from human understanding. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I say "understand," \NI mean that I can recognize patterns, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,analyze language, and respond \Nin ways that are coherent Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and contextually appropriate \Nbased on my training. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand \Nin the deep, conscious sense of the word Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--like when humans \Nreflect on their experiences Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or have insight into their feelings. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, my "understanding" \Ncomes from identifying Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relationships between words, concepts, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and context based on the vast data \NI've been trained on. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In short: I can simulate \Nunderstanding through patterns, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not the same \Nas truly experiencing Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or being conscious of meaning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that clarify things a bit? Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[surreal tonal music] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two weeks ago a student told me \Nthat AI is unfair Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can put a B Paper in \Nand get A+ writing out. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why I do not understand \Nthe conversation my colleagues are having, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I cannot think of this Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a matter of ethics, \Nor academic integrity, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I don't think we should need \Nto have a policy or policies. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My student said you can put a B Paper in \Nand get A+ writing out, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my mind began to fill \Nwith {\i1}Tender Buttons{\i0}. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Stein reading]: "Feeling full for it. \NExactitude as kings. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to beseech you as full as for it." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- AI is bad at writing. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. That is true,\Nbut it's not enough truth. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AI is not capable of writing. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that writing is\Nis a thing that AI cannot do. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[surreal tonal music] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [narration of Stephen King's {\i1}On Writing{\i0},\Nhighlighted on-screen] Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- AI is good at language. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My students think that \Nwhat it produces is A+ writing, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because it is good, \Nbut because it sounds good. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously, AI can generate sentences Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are typically clear, coherent, \Nand contextually relevant, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often capturing nuances and adapting \Nto various tones or levels of formality. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's true that \Nthe sentences it generates Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to be grammatically accurate, \Nconcise, and logically structured, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which contributes to readability and flow. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sure, this is how I know \Nwhen a student is using AI. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their sentences are fluid and academic, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they don't say anything. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like ChatGPT, academic writing uses\Nformal cautious language Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to avoid ambiguities \Nand misinterpretations, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that is a characteristic of Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the common voice \Nused in academic writing. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not what academic writing is. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Writing is more than language. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I Told Him" is communication, \Nand it is language, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the communication \Ndoes not live in the language. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can curls rob can curls quote, quotable." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [deep voice, lightly confused]: \N"What?" 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,,- [deeply confused]: \N"What?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- "Has trains." Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [exasperated]: \N"What?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When I started sending my friends \Nlines from "If I Told Him", Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their responses varied. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Confusion. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Playfulness. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Concern. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sad face. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beautifully, they all responded \Nexactly like themselves. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you asked me which of my friends \Nwould respond with monkey reacts, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have said Kiki. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who would think of Cormac McCarthy? \NJames. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dot would play along. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max would attempt \Nto understand academically. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OOC would go back to playing {\i1}Yu-Gi-Oh{\i0} \Nas quickly as possible. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know these people, but I do. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all carry around little LLMs \Nof each other in our heads, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trained on the corpus \Nof all of our past interactions. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For each of my friends, \Nsending abject nonsense with no context Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is slightly but not significantly\Nout of line with their Josh model. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So none of them knew \Nquite what to do, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they all responded like themselves. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in their own way, \Nthey all started by acknowledging Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the words I sent them \Ndid not seem to have any meaning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were not decodable. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't understand my language, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they could feel me \Nbehind the words reaching out, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so they reached back. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave them nonsense \Nand they peopled back. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the two weeks that I've been sitting \Nwith my student statement Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,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,,- [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,,- ["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,,- [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,,[upbeat tonal music] 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, to 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,,- [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 what you're getting at? 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, just 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, plausible-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,,'cause 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, ass-backwards. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In real life, writing comes 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 Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 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, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it 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, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Robert Burton in 1624, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Diego de Estella in 1578, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 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,,- [Revolug, streamer-player on screen]: \NYeah, 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,,- [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 reading "If I Told Him"]: \NLet me recite what history teaches. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 because we force it to. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [dialogue from {\i1}Rick and Morty{\i0}] 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 what 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,,- [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,,- [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,,- {\i1}We{\i0} get pulled. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}We're{\i0} 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 in the same direction. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not sharing a 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, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 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 8-- 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. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There 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, because\Nthere can be no meeting of the minds, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there is no mind to meet.