A great human artist, we’d like to believe, amplifies and defends the exceptionalist spirit of our species but, in an echo of the anxieties that haunted early photography, a demonised version of AI threatens to steal away our souls. Encroaching on the best of what we can do and make and be, machine art intrudes onto sacred territory. Creative... See more

The idea that hit me this morning is that society has always relied on its own implicit version of Proof of Work for all kinds of things. We have operated on the assumption that if a document, a photo, a technical report, slide deck, student essay or any “cognitive artifact” was complex, it was hard to produce. That difficulty was our proxy for... See more

Authenticity and dilution of design/beauty/more . In a world where everything is perfect and beautiful, the right way to counter-signal might be to be ugly, authentic, and real. Generative AI will every ad creative and video and image perfect. The people in the marketing will be beautiful (because they won’t be real) and the environments their in... See more