A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250902/ #AI #AiHype
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@WeirdWriter
oh my god.
that is horrible and funny. I thought it was funny when i first read it through, but i wanted to hear the pronunciations.
I eventually found the reading at the top of the article, and it was an entirely new experience.
Sean did an awesome job!
@WeirdWriter
the way the banana + pound and pence is described makes me think that it was trained on a mix of american and british(or similar) voices.
Also, I am not familiar with screen reader tech, but is it normally expected for the reader to make comments about the screen contents? (such as the quote-unquote dire warning keeping you safe from the dangers of grocery)
No. Only a Tech Bro designing an LLM based screen reader would even think a blind person would want that. But I agree about Sean! I so, so, can't wait until he can narrate the Colonization of Confidence! But typically a screen reader should only output what the code says, nothing more, ever! Should I add the audio link to the end of posts too going forward or keep it at the top? @lilacperegrine
@WeirdWriter
There's some merits to having it on both the bottom and the top. I think having this on the bottom made some sense for this one as a large part of this was pronunciation-based.
Yeah, good idea! I can update all the links/posts in a couple of days. I try to push updates when everyone is sleeping because, for the time it takes for the new files to go to my web server, all the old files get deleted. I was told you don't need to delete things every time when working with #Eleventy but I've seen way too many Eleventy build errors when websites get to be many many posts so I always clear everything so everything is the latest version of whatever page. @lilacperegrine
@WeirdWriter
huh, i wasn't aware it worked that way! seeing the limitations makes the medium feel more tangible somehow.
@WeirdWriter Your description of the voice is awesome and has me laughing. But it also has me wishing I could hear it myself.
II might just start calling lettuce let-TOO-chay from now on. Like when the dad in “A Christmas Story” mispronounces “Fragile.” “Fra jee lay” he says. “Must be Italian!”
Anyways it would be awesome to hear a recording of this abomination.
And if you wanted the audio version, https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/3feab1c9/a-requiem-for-my-dignity-sacrificed-at-the-altar-of-ai @paco
@WeirdWriter Thanks. Sean did a great job. @steggy and I listened to it together and were both laughing out loud.
I already call something Italian when I mean it is fragile. And I frequently say I want to read the story of Manuel when I mean I want to read a user manual. Now I need a way to work let two chay into my vocabulary. And maybe sour dough gut. We are currently feeding a sourdough, which will eventually enter my gut. 😀
@paco You should listen to Seans interpretation. It comes very close! At the top
@WeirdWriter I spilled all my water when I reached the part mentioning the "non-prostitute milk". This was a really good one
Did you catch the note at the bottom? Smile, and if you wanted the audio version, https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/3feab1c9/a-requiem-for-my-dignity-sacrificed-at-the-altar-of-ai @berniethewordsmith
@WeirdWriter That was my next step. Something tells me this will sound hilarious in the hands of an audiobook narrator