“There’s something really interesting in the practice of critiquing automation through apparently menial labour: That by intentionally pursuing hard, human tasks, you can show the work that is done.”
– Artist and designer
Tobias Revell, theorising the reverse-engineering of OpenAI’s natural language processor
GPT-3 by a “time-rich” artist or writer. “The author of such a work would effectively be manually mining
ngrams for the
least likely combination of words that maintain some meaning.”
