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I don’t use ChatGPT to write my articles. Nor do I use it to write this newsletter, or anything else I produce. And I never will

Maybe A.I. can make a song that’s indistinguishable from what I can do. Maybe even a better song. But, to me, that doesn’t matter—that’s not what art is. Art has to do with our limitations, our frailties, and our faults as human beings. It’s the distance we can travel away from our own frailties. That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply... See more

I've worked a bit on training AI and you have a wrong idea there. AI will not perform an analysis of what is the most impactful event of a given day. It will generate the event (sometimes fake :) based on probability taken from training data. I know it seems like the same thing but it's not. LLM does not have any analytical ability, if enough... See more

This has been happening for a while, by the way: check out this WIRED report on the issue from 2024. Last year, a phantom writer named “Victoria Goldiee”, whose bylines appeared everywhere from the Guardian to Architectural Digest, was found to be a chatbot invention. Elsewhere, AI is writing speeches, scripts, sermons, and just about anything else... See more

Board with your AI outputs? Here’s some creative prompts to try:

I’m an archivist. AI doesn’t scare me that much because I see every day how much information and evidence of human life is not online and never will be. My small institution has more than a million pages of manuscript material that will never be digitized; most archives have a tiny percentage of their holdings online, if any. To do real research in... See more