Fuck AI let’s Dance
AI doesn’t just automate the bullshit work, it risks automating the manual joy of thinking, creating, and basically doing anything.
Google’s doing a great job at fixing their reputation for only hiring the absolute smartest people. https://t.co/0zJK7fPghI
But, starting in 2023, Google wrote in its sustainability report that it was no longer "maintaining operational carbon neutrality." The company says it's still pushing for its net-zero goal in 2030.
Dara Kerr • AI Brings Soaring Emissions for Google and Microsoft, a Major Contributor to Climate Change
I can explore Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein in dialogue with AI. We learn far more through dialogue than we do by monologue. The same goes for simulated dialogue. AI allows us to learn foreign languages in dialogue, which used to be the privilege of a very small minority. AI for learning in dialogue, simulation of thinking and stimulation of th
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Ambiguity of AI
If writing is thinking, ordering one’s ideas, generating text with A.I. may be a way to avoid thinking. What is writing without thinking? Maybe it is the definition of that deadening euphemism: content. As I tried to incorporate Writer into my writing process, I felt a little like a gambler pulling a slot-machine lever over and over, in hope of fin
... See moreKyle Chayka • My A.I. Writing Robot
so much AI stuff focuses on giving you results without letting you participate in the process, as if the thinking/digging/discovery is purely an obstacle and not the whole point at times
Observation: According to AI everything is “significant”.
Art will in fact thrive upon the mess that AI wreaks upon the masses. Action to reaction to commodification of said reaction. Toss in some enshittification and babe, there's really nothing better you could do for Art.