Gregory's Server
Lee is discussing what she calls the "traumatic stuplime" in conceptual poetry of the 2010s—works like Kenneth Goldsmith's _Seven American Deaths and Disasters_, which collects "raw" and unadorned transcripts of radio and tv coverage of traumatic events in American history. she quotes a question that Stephen Colbert asked Goldsmith during his appearance on the Colbert Report in 2013 to promote that book, a quote that I think about all the time. imo Colbert's question also applies to LLMs
of course ChatGPT isn't trained only on textual artifacts of our traumas—though its training set does include those, among many other things. regardless, I can't shake that (honestly revolting) feeling of vampirism—lives being feasted on—whenever large language models are used or discussed. the end!