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Our printer seems to turn itself on at unpredictable intervals but then disappoints by producing nothing. It is, however, apparently adept at doing what it's told. Prior to that, we had a printer which was really good at printing out its test page but not keen on doing anything else.
To eliminate
either source of downcastness, there should be a printer which never holds out the hope that the user will be able to send documents to it. Instead, it contains firmware able to generate various documents, usually mixtures of text and graphics, which are assembled seemingly randomly. This it does at various intervals, then produces said document. You never know, it might even print something vaguely relevant that one time, and if not they can be used as a method of divination.
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Definitely approved and perfectly capable of substituting for certain entire governments. Big big croissant crumb. |
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//seems to turn itself on at unpredictable intervals but then disappoints by producing nothing// It's probably just cleaning itself, like a cat. |
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//It's probably just cleaning itself//
My parents' old printer spent far more time cleaning itself & recalibrating & whatnot than it did printing. Also nearly shook itself off the table each time it did so.
With ChatGPT & it's friends, generating arbitrary-but-correct-looking documents should be no problem. |
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Well indeed, and I'm not sure it should actually use that or something else. I'm quite keen on it being completely offline. |
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Offline - yes.
There's definitely enough space in a printer to shove the required storage space & processor power to have it "stand alone". |
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Ghost writer in the machine... |
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Would be nice to have it generate the documents using unpredictable ambient data from the surroundings. It could have internal speech-to-text, perhaps also cameras linked to image recognition algorithms. Perhaps also temperature sensors, accelerometers , etc. The data would be used to seed the ai-powered random content generator. |
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