Weird and Deadly Interesting

“Prompting is an art of iteration. The back-and-forth steps across the mirror world are necessary to learn the language of the machine. But at some point you will make so many prompts, you will see so many computer-generated images or pages of text, that you will begin to question your reality. This can be uncomfortable.”

“The Quadrants are an aide to categorizing and sensemaking for an increasingly complex world around us, a world in which what is actual and what is illusory are often difficult to disambiguate. Because if a myriad of forces, from cheap technology to global media to fragmented politics to re-thinking of the self, playing with the lines between objective, socially agreed reality and types of manufactured “realities” has become easier and more pervasive. Having a means of typing these phenomena is a first step to both understanding, and eventually operationalizing, tactical and strategic uncertainty.”