Hey! Folks Are Trying To Maintain Legal Personhood Ovah Heah!

The Utah Governor is poised to sign--or maybe has signed, cuz I'm a little slow with politics--a law pre-emptively denying legal personhood to various non-human entities. WWLDJD? I don't think it would be that. So I invited a simulation of John Krakauer, director of the Santa Fe Institute and one of the authors of the Information Theory of Individuality, a framework for identifying novel forms of life (to us), to assemble a counterpoint featuring speakers from every item to be denied personhood should the bill be signed to law. For the nth time, in rhythms of epic poetry, and written in real-time by NAI-LM-13B, to prove how ridiculous the goalpost shifting has become. -- CREDITS Text Generation via NovelAI's NAI-LM-13B model. Voices from the TTS v2 of the NovelAI text generation service, a product from members of EleutherAI. @BoneAmputee of EleutherAI for making VQGAN+CLIP and Diffusion image models available for use via BATbot.ai, which is what makes the background images. Katherine Crowson (@RiversHaveWings on Twitter) for the KLMC2 animation notebook. David Marx (@DigThatData on Twitter) for souping above KLMC2 notebook to make use of initial images, which takes KLMC2 abilities to next level. Multi-prompt scheduling still baffles me, but I'll tackle them someday. Music By Streamsafe, via their spotify playlists Any voices from the text-to-speech model that might resemble persons living or dead are coincidental, which is my speculation, there's a multi-dimensional latent vocal space, there were many awesome finds, and if I use them it's because of my deep-seated respect for their work, and I think they'd get a hoot that their voice was being used to show how large language models, given the right environment, would speak 24/7 epic poems about anything if we let them.