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Will AI Replace the Artist?
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
culture.ghost.io
People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
Austin Kleon • AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon
Where and how will humans show the eminence of our species when AI becomes better than us at everything? I feel sort of desperate for some human-centric optimism here because the whole project of being human feels really weird as our specialness becomes automated.
A couple of observations. First, I do think the last mile is the most difficu
... See moreBen Horowitz • Ben’s Perspective Part 2: A Few Thoughts About Chatgpt With Ben Horowitz
When it comes to AI, we need to aim higher than the question: “What if you could press a button to generate an essay?” AI can produce infinite amounts of content; quantity is its game. Quality, intention, taste, originality, vision—that’s where we come in.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
But us humans, we’re scared too. Which makes us defensive and write think-pieces like "Will AI replace the artist? Wait dang it I wrote that one nvm.
The more we talk about how we are not AI, the more robotic we become.
"Trust us, we're human and here's why," we keep saying — that nobody can deny!
The truth hides in the subtext and makes me wonder, ... See more
The more we talk about how we are not AI, the more robotic we become.
"Trust us, we're human and here's why," we keep saying — that nobody can deny!
The truth hides in the subtext and makes me wonder, ... See more
Sari Azout • Are We Human? Then Let's Be Dancers
In a digitally decentralized world where generative AI can lower the barriers of creation even farther than ever before, and bots can be trained under the perspective of your choosing, an already fractured reality becomes at risk for disintegration. Or, as science-fiction writer and professional futurist Madeline Ashby told us in a recent interview... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Content will be commoditized by AI—but content isn’t culture
From Hamish McKenzie
... See moreThis same surge in AI-led content production will simultaneously fuel a tremendous need for cultural connection: real humans in communion with one another. These relationships help us make sense of the world, and to know where to direct our attention. Their value will d