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like agency in directing where the story goes, except for trying to bridge each card from one to another.

And the presenter was discussing if this bears any similarity to generative text models.

The presenter said no.

The presenter said no, this actually is not like LLMs, which purely operate on a people-pleasing, probabilistic capacity to follow one word after another in accordance with whatever the prompt of the person who's operating the AI wants it to generate.

Though the presenter stated that, like, this author who was using tarot probably would have loved using an LLM to try to accomplish this goal of his, trying to access kind of like a form of automatic writing, similar to, like, Austin Osmond Spare, but without human input.

The shuffling of the cards and forcing the human brain to make connections between these archetypes still contains a creative human process based on randomness in the shuffling of the deck versus the people-pleasing, probabilistic, generative text that LLMs produce.

This concludes the first episode of my Occulture 2025 coverage.

In part two, releasing Sunday night, the panel will discuss digital technomancy, traditional magical practice, and why people are doing occult practice in 2025.

See you on the other side.

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