11 comments

  • jxf 46 minutes ago
    This is one of those ideas that would really benefit from a short video demo, gif, or even a screenshot directly in the README. Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. [0]

    [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/c...

  • adyavanapalli 2 minutes ago
    This is soooo incredibly cool. Beyond the Tom Riddle diary aspect, I love the idea of this as a new medium for interacting with an LLM. You could gift it to someone and they could just write naturally, their thoughts, questions, notes, and get responses back without typing or speaking. It feels less like a chatbot and more like a journal you can communicate through. You could give it a personality and all.
  • Tcepsa 29 minutes ago
    I understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)
    • avaer 22 minutes ago
      Why would that comparison be bad if it's accurate?

      Also, "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both can be made good and evil.

      • p-e-w 18 minutes ago
        It’s not accurate, it’s absurd hyperbole no different from the kind the people who peddle it have arrogantly ridiculed their entire lives.

        A mentally unstable person being “made” to do something by a chatbot is no different from other mentally unstable people doing bad things because they saw them in a TV show.

        • lwansbrough 11 minutes ago
          You don't think there's a difference between passive entertainment and a conversation with a sycophantic enabler?
        • McGlockenshire 12 minutes ago
          No, actually, an interactive textual conversation is a significantly different thing than a television show.
    • boothby 9 minutes ago
      > it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being.

      It's worked pretty well for Palantir?

    • trhway 21 minutes ago
      Once/if we lose understanding of the tech it will become magic/haunted artifacts.
  • binarymax 11 minutes ago
    This is really cool, but the best part is the response in the twitter post demo had an em-dash.
  • munificent 3 minutes ago
    > No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI.

    Is this not just... a chat UI?

  • delichon 42 minutes ago
    If Fable can now create horcruxes, the Commerce Department should seriously consider another time out.
  • josh2600 43 minutes ago
    This is sick, in the 90's Tony Hawk sense of the word.

    I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.

    There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week.

    We are not in the slow times anymore.

    • tffrr 27 minutes ago
      There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week.

      lolwat

      sarcasm surely

      • MarkusQ 21 minutes ago
        I remember it taking long enough (they had to wait for another project to need a lot of that color) that we wound up using dope to mock it up. (Regular paint didn't hold and just chipped off.)
  • newspaper1 1 minute ago
    This seems like an extra banal and unimpressive demonstration of Fable? You could do this kind of thing very easily with GPT-4. Show me the code or something interesting, not fanfic slop.
  • ButlerianJihad 26 minutes ago
    Ginevra was my favourite and the most beautiful character in the HP films. Poor Ginny. Relieved that she survived all that. One tough cookie.
  • wpm 23 minutes ago
    > No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI. Just ink appearing on paper.

    No soul. No care. No consideration. Just slop appearing as text. Shut the *fuck* up BOT. How in the hell is this not the most appalling, offensive smell by now? All this says to me is someone proompted some garbage into barely working, didn't even bother to look at what the stupid token machine generated for a readme. How unfathomably embarassing.

    I cannot take any project seriously no matter how silly it presents itself as if this sort of obvious slop CRAP makes it into what is presented. Good fucking god give the slightest hint of a fuck if you want me to care at all about what you're throwing into the aether. Rub a few brain cells together, please.

    • arachnids 9 minutes ago
      This is an unhealthy amount of rage to feel about a random person doing something random on the internet
    • Exoristos 13 minutes ago
      Those who did not lose their minds because they were talked into by AI lost their minds because AI was so grating and ubiquitous.
    • wrs 9 minutes ago
      I really don't think this project was meant to be taken seriously.
    • r3trohack3r 7 minutes ago
      You doing okay man?
    • esikich 13 minutes ago
      Take a walk outside bro.