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    1. it's interesting to watch the computational definition of entropy become more literalized and concrete. if the rest of the sentence you're typing matches what gmail is suggesting, it's probably not conveying much new information. @karpathy/1192169928079503360
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    in a similar way, if you have seen a lot of images, the image that a AI model will generate for a particular prompt does not give you very much new information beyond that contained in the prompt
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      a picture is worth 1000 words (if the prompt was 1000 words long)
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        it includes the prompt because, as Robin Sloan says, the thing that is impressive is that it has made an image that matches the prompt, not the image itself @v21/1533879912410521600
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          of course, there is still value in generating the image - sometimes a particular format wants an image in a certain place instead of text. but personally i would be 100% fine if the Medium articles i scan to find out how to do a thing with code didn't have any stock art in them.
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            thinking about the relationship between compression and context @lucastheis/1538907482021675010
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              what happens to art when the only kind of image that can be sent in high quality is the kind of image that has been sent a lot before @v21/1065159642735616000