William Poulos on Substack

This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more

Use the tools if you must. But a better use of your extra energy — such as it is — is to live the gap between human and AI. Can an AI gather, synthesize, calculate, and even speculate faster than we can? Yes. Can it do all those things better than we can? Maybe. Can it be more interesting, unexpected, artful, or meaningful? Well that’s just a matte... See more

“AI poetry” “Oh the humanity”, they cry. The poetry robots are out of control. We knew it would happen someday. I told you so. I told you not to do it. They said, don’t worry. They said, “We will teach it ethics”. But then they forgot to teach the ethics. Now they are writing poems and they can’t stop. Please don’t let them write poems. Not until t

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