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Teacher's 'Chinese whispers' drawing game highlights AI 'slop'

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A teacher shared an anecdote about a game involving repeated copying of drawings, akin to Chinese whispers. Participants were instructed to copy drawings exactly, but surprisingly, the designs evolved in unexpected and wonderful ways due to human interpretation. This observation was presented in the context of AI and the concept of 'slop'. AI

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Teacher's 'Chinese whispers' drawing game highlights AI 'slop'

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Thanks to @ jjn1 for this quotation from a teacher: “I wrote a paper once about repeated copying. My students and I played a game like Chinese whispers, but wit

    Thanks to @ jjn1 for this quotation from a teacher: “I wrote a paper once about repeated copying. My students and I played a game like Chinese whispers, but with drawings. A person copies a drawing, a second person copies the copy, and so on. One might imagine that designs would …

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