Quick Passages

Since the generative AIs have been trained on the entirety of human work — most of it mediocre — it produces “wisdom of the crowd”-like results. They may hit the mark but only because they are average.

t is by now a familiar, even banal reality that AIs can suss out the ineffable essence of collections of artwork. The Rembrandtiness of Rembrandt, the Mozartiness of Mozart: These are weak passwords that have been cracked. Given enough data from the output of certain classes of learnable systems, an AI can reliably model the internal generative mec