Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang. https://t.co/d2qK0nJpKh
Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang. https://t.co/d2qK0nJpKh
GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool; it's a kind of digital acid rain, silently eroding the value of all information.
Every image is no longer a glimpse of reality, but a... See more
François Cholletx.comPeople assume that generative AI will lead to a tsunami of garbage content. I think the opposite problem is more interesting: what if you were drowning in amazing content? What if you’re so inspired and overwhelmed by awe that it’s stressful and addicting and life disorienting?
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.
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and
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The fundamental difference between collective consciousness in mythology and AI's tendency to produce generic, averaged outputs rather than creative work
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It seems like it's one thing to talk about the specific way in which one writer or group of writers say expresses, uh, tales that have been in the culture in broader ways for forever, or they might experience themselves as giving voice to, um, ideas that are moving through them rather than coming from them and something else entirely to just take a
... See morethe worst of all possible worlds: generative AI manages to pollute the internet with cheap synthetic data, manages to make being a human artist / creator harder