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Funny, but the left brain/right brain idea has been debunked. Ask AI!

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The clock in the early photo has 13 hours!

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🤦‍♂️🤣🤷🏼‍♂️😬

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Your description says “always flying reg flags”

did you mean red?

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oops, thanks!!!

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Can't thank you enough for pointing that out.

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I find that identifying other people’s mistakes is a snap for me

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When you write - you can stare at something 10,000 times and miss it. Eyes/brain thing. That's why we all need editors and interestingly, that's one thing mine (my wife) didn't read. (I'm a horrible copy editor.)

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It happens to me too! I have a really obsessive editing method, but it’s not perfect.

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My favorite editing hack, which I’ve mentioned here, is to put an article into the mobile “preview” mode. It tricks my brain and I find tons of errors and reasons to change what I wrote.

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You and I, Herb, are completely aligned on this. AI chatbots are not as good as an intelligent human brain. I wrote about this from my bankruptcy-lawyer perspective: "AI Chatbots are Useless for Bankruptcy Lawyering," at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4538847 .

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Thank you for this intriguing case study, Herb. As an extremely, perhaps even tragically, right-brained individual, the point you make in your last sentence captures precisely what we creative types find so upsetting about AI-generated art. It substitutes the creative process - the very essence of joy for right-brainers, a sacred tradition, a purpose for living - with processes that we experience as cold and soul-killing. The fact that they are achieved by stealing our work and reselling it without compensation adds insult to injury. For those who aren’t creatively inclined, this pain may be difficult to fully convey. It transcends concerns about livelihood; it’s a spiritual and existential ache. While AI is undoubtedly transformative and thrilling in many fields, its impact on art cuts deeper.

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Curious as to what happens if you start a new chat, with your second prompt. Given the problem of what the model gets stuck on if it started on the wrong rails, I would expect the outcomes you got of going from bad to worse and the output not fully grasping the “need for change”

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Worth trying next time.

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