import generative AI story draft

I was originally imagining posting this as a Less Wrong exclusive
(because of the AI angle), but they probably don't want it (because of
the sex angle).

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+Title: Deepfake (working title)
+Date: 2023-07-01 
+Category: fiction
+Tags: language modeling
+Status: draft
+
+"I want _you_, Chad," said the woman in the video as she took off her shirt. "Those negative comments on your pull requests were just a smokescreen—because I was afraid to confront the inevitability of our love!"
+
+Chad Morgan still couldn't help but marvel at what he and his team had built. It really looked and sounded just like her!
+
+It had been obvious since DALL-E back in 'twenty-one—earlier if you were paying attention—that generative AI would reach this level of customization and realism before too long. Eventually, it was just a matter of the right few dozen people rolling up their sleeves—and Magma's willingness to pony up the compute—to make it work. But _it worked_. His awe at Multigen's sheer power would have been humbling, if not for the awareness of his own modest role in bringing it into being.
+
+Of course, this particular video wouldn't be showcased in the team's next publication. Technically, Magma employees were not supposed to use their state-of-the-art generative AI system to make custom pornography of their coworkers. Technically (what was probably a lesser offense), Magma employees were not supposed to be viewing such content during work hours. Technically—what should have been a greater offense—Magma employees were not supposed to covertly introduce a bug into the generative AI service codebase specifically in order to make it possible to create such content without leaving a log.
+
+But, _technically_? No one could enforce any of that. Developers needed to test what the system they were building was capable of. The flexibility for employees to be able to take care of the occasional personal task during the day was universally understood (if not always explicitly acknowledged) as a perk of remote-work policies. And everyone writes bugs. This miracle of computer science was the product of years of hard work by Chad and his colleagues. _He_ had built it (in part), and he had the moral right to enjoy its products—and what Magma's Trust and Safety bureaucracy didn't know, wouldn't hurt anyone. He had _already_ been visualizing Elaine naked for months. Delegating the cognitive work of visualization to be done in Magma's GPU farm instead of his own visual cortex couldn't make a moral difference, surely.
+
+Elaine, probably, would object, if she knew. But if she didn't know that Chad _specifically_ was using Multigen _specifically_ to generate erotica of her _specifically_, she must have known that this was an obvious use-case of the technology. If she didn't want people using generative AI to visualize her in sexually suggestive situations, then _why was she working to advance the state of generative AI?_ Really, she had no one to blame but herself.
+
+Just as he was about to come, he was interrupted by a 
+
+
+_Tranny or real?_ he wondered.
+
+
+"I hope I'm not interrupting anything important," she said.
+
+_Definitely a tranny_, thought Chad. "No, nothing important," he said.
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+
+`git commit --amend --author=`
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+0x07 ASCII bell character