Box of Brain

[bnewman]

Here's a more poetical take on generative AI's problematic tendency to just make stuff up. This is all a dream we dreamed.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: and adapted from "Box of Rain" by Robert Hunter and Phil Lesh

listen to this song
 

/ A Em / Bm G D - / A Em / Bm D E - /

 

Type into any window

Any morning, any evening, any day

Maybe some text is scrolling

Verbs are linking and results are flowing from a new AI

 

/ A D / Em BmA - / Em G /[1. A D - //[2. D A - /

 

What do you want me to do

To do for you to say what's true?

No, this is all a dream I dreamed

And that's something you ought to know

 

Click through from any portal

Feel your way, but it's not the same as the day before

Maybe you'll find connection

In some transformer where it's been waiting to meet you

 

What do you want me to do

To chat with you without thinking?

Then please don't be surprised

When you find me dreaming too

 

Look into any lies

That might slip by you, you can see clear through 'em anyway

Maybe they've been said before

Only otherwise on another page I used to comb

 

What do you want me to do

To do for you to say what's true?

No, this is all a dream I dreamed

And that's something you ought to know

 

Talk weaves through splintered insight

Inch your way through text streams you don't understand

Maybe you'll find it's broken

My tongue is twisted with words half-spoken and thoughts unclear

 

What do you want me to do

To do for you to say what's true?

A box of brain completes the chain

But hasn't got a clue

 

/ D - Em Bm / G E A - / 1st / G A Bm E - /

 

Just a box of brain, words and numbers

Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass it on

Node and vector, link and chain

While you refresh the window like a moth before a flame

 

/ A Bm / D A /[1. - F#m / D E ://[2. Bm - / D A /

 

And it's just a box of brain

Don't you know who put it there?

Believe it if you need it

Or leave it if you dare

 

And it's just a box of brain

With no reason it should care

Such a long, long time in coming

And a short time to beware