LLMs made me do it
The internet challenged copyright by creating infinite distribution of perfect copies. With AI, what happens when infinite distribution is hooked up to infinite imitation?
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Another answer is not to cultivate the machine’s output but to compose through it, treating the model as material, choosing the inputs and shaping the rules. In other words, not working beside the machine, but stepping inside it.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
A good prompt doesn’t need to function like a blueprint. They can also behave like a horoscope or a fortune.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Lately, I’ve been thinking about my use of AI as a kind of spatial relationship. Where do I stand in relation to the machine—above it, beside it, under it? Each position carries a different kind of power dynamic. To be above is to steer, beside is to collaborate, below is to serve.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Good vocabulary to talk about your relation with AI!
You use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
I want to frame the technology more like an instrument, and get away from GenAI as an intelligence, an ideology, a tool, a crutch, or a weapon. I find the instrument framing more appealing as a person who has spent decades honing a set of skills. I want a way of working that relies on my capabilities and discernment rather than something so... See more
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
This is also the blueprint for a happy co-existence with the machines. The machines handle the optimization, we take care of the meaning. They execute, we dream. They calculate, and we create. This beautiful symbiosis will be the seed of everything because when humans live from their creative nature, we build societies that breathe. When we stay... See more