Beat The Machine
or ARTIFICIAL IMPLICATIONS

This is a short bonus for my last post, inspired by seeing yet more AI slop used in magic promos. There’s a cartoon style I’ve seen EVERYWHERE which is an instant signal that the picture is AI. If you want to see it, look at Craig Petty’s Magic TV thumbnails. There’s even a special font to look for which most AI uses. It’s as if a single artist was making all the art on the entire INTERNET… It just can’t sign it.

ANYWAY!

Thinking about the nature of all caps three or more beat words, it is a style of writing that AI is poorly suited to.

LLMs can’t even tell you how many Rs are in STRAWBERRY. You think it could ever CAPITALISE SYLLABLE LIMITATIONS?

I once asked an LLM to write only in five letter words and it failed on the first sentence. It couldn’t manage a single PARAGRAPH.

Maybe an LLM could squeeze out a sonnet simply because of the amount of IAMBIC PENTAMETER in its corpus, maybe a haiku at a push. But to maintain a style so downright IRREGULAR for an entire blog post would defeat it in a single stroke.