Toolmen
Becoming unLLMable
Reflects on how the term "AI" shapes perceptions, explores the evolving relationship between humans and AI tools, discusses AI's impact on creativity and work, and argues AI complements rather than replaces human uniqueness.
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And AI’s semivisible, infrastructural role in exploiting precarious labor (Uber’s nifty algorithm for suppressing driver wages), landlordism (RealPage’s widely used rent-hiking software), and neocolonial war (Israel’s high-tech civilian-bombing gadgetry) may already be too entrenched to stop. But professional readers and writers: We retain some... See more
https://www.nplusonemag.com/author/lisajborstgmail-com/ • Large Language Muddle
“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than humans. If you look at this historically, humans have positioned themselves as the most intelligent species, even though that’s not true. As the “most intelligent species,” we’ve used this power as an... See more
Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine
AI is yet another chapter in this story of technological utopianism to degrade labor by rhetorically obscuring it.