I mean just throw in a bunch of stuff you already liked, and then ask it to find similar stuff… Or just ask for a genre of stuff like “Space themed show with a lot of politics” (Assuming you didn’t already know that, then voila, it spits out: Expanse)

If it fucks up and give you something totally not what you were looking for, there’s not much harm besides a small bit of your time. Its fictional media anyways, just don’t go looking for news or medical advice lol, avoid treating it as a truth machine and its not that bad…

Okay sure you can hate the corporate that is gonna do evil shit with these tech, but the tech itself still kinda useful… (maybe we’ll get some very advanced and ethically made FOSS “AI”/LLM in the future, who knows)

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I do that as well. Like tell it I have fetish for shag piles and space ships. And it’ll recommend the movie Barbarella to me 😅

    And one time, after reading how people publish AI written books, I tried to write a few short stories with AI myself. And at some point, I’d often end with the feeling “wait a minute, I know that movie”. And after querying it about “similar” movies and TV shows, it’d tell me what it just ripped off. And recommend some more. Nothing fancy, I could have googled that. But nevertheless, I learned about some nice TV shows that way.

    But fact-check the output. It also hallucinated some. And recommended some unwatchable tearjerker movies to me.

    And nothing beats human word of mouth. If you have friends who get to learn you didn’t watch The Expanse, or The Orville… they’ll proactively recommend that to you and it’ll make your day. Or week. And no amount of AI can do that. Same goes for your next favorite niche Italian metal band and their music.