AI

Ask it about music, and it can write you lyrics in the style of whoever you’d like. But it’s never listened to a great song, never heard one right when it needed to be heard.

The robot was quite good at copying my style, but much less good at writing anything meaningful. It could predict which words I would be most likely to use but it couldn’t make an original argument for me. Using the robot made me think a lot about the nature of writing and what goes in to its peculiar form of labor. AI tools fundamentally promise t... See more

Creators are thinking about AI the wrong way. Most creators are attracted to AI because they can use it to emulate the work of creators who have more resources. Finally – an equalizer! When that becomes true, when you CAN emulate the work of bigger creators, those creators will just adapt. They will innovate and create content that once again c... See more

I'm not anti-AI. I'm pro-Creators.

A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long a... See more