there’s a little guy back there shooting too

paging @dieworkwear.bsky.social please

The thing I find the most interesting about it is that in my experience, the subjective quality of the poetry seemed to have a pretty significant correlation to it's prompt hacking effectiveness.

The closer you get to something that feels like it has independent literary value, the better it works

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

not equivalent, of course, but consider youtube.com/@hellswelles... while thinking about it