Techocalypse

This is what a frictionless world looks like. Everything accelerates, until you forget what it means to try.

AI is entirely to blame for why most inboxes are useless.

The tech has made email marketers vastly more confident in their production to delivery pipeline, which means I’m receiving 5 emails when there used to be one - and getting 5 emails doesn’t 5X my interest in the sale. Of all things, it 1/5ths it with each message that arrives.

Even my text

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Two years later, I’m still asked about them. People want to know: Did they stay on the Luddite path? Or were they dragged back into the tech abyss?

AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards

You Don’t Have To Make Art

The early chorus of generative AI tools:
“Now everyone can make art regardless of their skills or tools.”

• Could you not make art before? Even elephants can paint. Our ancestors created well known art by etching with a stone into the walls of the caves they called home. A kid with a box of discount crayons has no problem

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The average American has fewer than three friends, fewer than three people they would consider friends. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more. I think it's something like 15 friends or something.

The implication is that Meta will close that friendship gap with AI companions. Zuckerberg clarified they won't replace relationships... See more

"Specifically, we demonstrate that by injecting just 250 malicious documents into pretraining data, adversaries can successfully backdoor LLMs ranging from 600 [million] to 13 [billion] parameters."

Addressing those who are critical of using the technology in this way, Zuckerberg said, “If you think that something someone is doing is bad, and they think it’s really valuable, most of the time, in my experience, they’re right and you’re wrong, and you just haven’t come up with a framework yet for understanding why the thing that [they’re] doing... See more