AI hellholes
it is what it sounds like.
AI hellholes
We can do better. AI is not the answer. #savetheplanet#banAI #thinkbeforeyouclick
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This is what a frictionless world looks like. Everything accelerates, until you forget what it means to try.
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
one student said college now feels like “how well I can use ChatGPT.” Others describe writing essays as a coordination problem: get the prompt, feed it to the bot, skim the output, add some filler, hit submit. No thinking required, just interface management.
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
thinking, analyzing information —> coordination of information. moving bits around
(to-read) about AI as ideology, and one that tracks with our other ideologies about inequality, race, injustice
“AI mirrors you. You're being sold back to yourself. It will only increase hyper-individualism and isolation.”
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
especially relevant re: Zuckerberg’s Meta AI companions that he is positioning as filling the gap between demand and supply of friendships.
AI data centers polluting Black neighborhoods.
I can smell these from a mile away. They reek of “trying too hard.” Before you scream that I’m AI-shaming: 1 — I don’t think using AI is “cheating.” But writing that sounds like everyone else and/or like ChatGPT is a huge turnoff to me. And even if it doesn’t turn off your ideal reader, it’s not going to help you stand out. 2 — I’m not telling you not to use AI to *help* you write. I’ve been using Chat as a brainstorming partner and souped-up thesaurus more and more. But if I have it write so much as a sentence *clause* for me, I almost always have to change it, almost completely. In fact, I asked it to write me a caption for this post, and I think it’s trolling itself! A ChatGPT self-own! Behold: “In this carousel, I’m calling out the ChatGPT writing tells that make me want to crawl under my desk and live there. From squirrel jokes to “chef’s kiss” sass to that triple beat it can’t stop hitting—it’s all in here. And hey, this isn’t about banning tools. It’s about knowing your voice so you don’t sound like you outsourced your personality. Want to develop a writing style that doesn’t feel pre-chewed? Comment PUKE and I’ll DM you my 5 Secrets to Non-Sucky Copy.” How many tells do you count right in that passage? 👉Drop your most-hated Chat tics below. 👉And, yes, comment “PUKE” if you want my guide.
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on the need for digital literacy and re-skilling our understanding of how computers (and AI) work