Shawn Powers

One particular use case that concerns her is sentiment analysis, which she argues is “a highly subjective metric that even humans would struggle to appropriately assess based on media alone.”

“Technique” then becomes a closed-circuit system of awareness, memory, and control over interior semiosis. So emotionally transformative is this process that sometimes singers say things like, “Learning to sing is like psychotherapy, except that it works.” It “works” in the sense that the vivisection of the interior allows for awareness of and cont... See more

One of the great challenges of singers-in-training is to learn to identify and correctly discern the related proprioceptive signals that can tell them—without listening—that they probably are producing good sounds.

In the process of learning to sing, tropes of nature and science combine to frame ideologies of the body that code certain feelings as correct or incorrect

One bitter irony of the faux-Ghibli meme is that Miyazaki is an avowed hater of A.I. technology. In an infamous clip, from 2016, he described an automated animation tool as “an insult to life itself.” That Miyazaki’s lifework is now grist for the generative-A.I. mill might be not only an insult but a copyright infringement. OpenAI argues that copyi... See more

The use of Ghibli-esque anime in the OpenAI demo was intentional; “we put a lot of thought into the initial examples we show when we introduce new technology,”

The vibes said you want it to justify the answer post hoc, so it did that.

At the same time, critics raised questions about its opaque evaluation process, the self-selecting nature of participants in the arena, the difficulty in reproducing any of its findings, and the ease with which its rankings can be gamed.