Andrew McCluskey

A recent Senate policy brief warned that AI models could cut musicians’ incomes by as much as 25 percent within four years, as training sets devour the fruits of their labor without any licensing payments or bargaining leverage.

Glut is never cool. And to be entertained, humans need some form of novel or complex stimulus that goes beyond what they already know. And you can't just "tune the AI" to be innovative, since we only accept idiosyncratic artistic decisions when we feel human intention behind them.

A trend describes a convention in the process of taking on new adherents.

People will, if given the opportunity, read a 5,000-word essay on their phone. And they’ll do it right there, with their head still on the pillow. In those cases, it’s not terrible; it’s wonderful. And if you can capture that, if you can direct that attention to things worth attending to, it’s incredibly powerful. So if you’re a writer, why not go

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