Jen Burkey
@jenburkey
Jen Burkey
“To be a cultural brand in today’s world you have to behave like a publisher in your own right. If Nothing takes on this role of music publisher, how can we give back to the music community? How can we create events, publish materials and build a community around the brand?”
A flash in the pan collaboration isn’t creating culture.
Neither is a... See more
A flash in the pan collaboration isn’t creating culture.
Neither is a... See more
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Harry Salmons
Today I'm thinking a lot about Lego adding#HonestlyItsNotAIto the caption of their FIFA World Cup ad
Earlier this year, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, had the following to say about AI content on the platform:
“All the major platforms will do good work identifying AI content, but they will get worse at it over time as AI gets better at imitating... See more
Earlier this year, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, had the following to say about AI content on the platform:
“All the major platforms will do good work identifying AI content, but they will get worse at it over time as AI gets better at imitating... See more
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From Jack Westerkamp (Breaking and Entering Media Co-Founder)
The 81K study reads less as a report about what people want from AI than as a diagnostic scan of a civilisation that outsourced its care infrastructure, overloaded its workers, defunded its public spaces, and then watched a machine move into every gap it left empty.
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
AI’s learning benefits are strongest when the learning is volitional, when the person chooses difficulty because they want to grow, not because an institution requires a deliverable. Inside formal education, where assessment structures reward outputs rather than understanding, AI becomes a shortcut. Outside those structures, where no grade is at... See more
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
AI as tutor vs. tester
Anthropic calls it “light and shade.” Five recurring tensions where the benefit AI provides and the harm it threatens turn out to be the same capability viewed from two angles. Learning and cognitive atrophy. Decision support and unreliability. Emotional support and emotional dependence. Time saving and illusory productivity. Economic empowerment... See more
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
A student submits an essay generated by AI that receives a passing grade. We call that an AI problem. But the assessment was designed to reward polished output regardless of understanding; AI just made the design flaw legible. Twenty million people spend hours daily talking to AI companions, using the language of healthcare to describe the... See more
Carlo Iacono • What do you want from AI?
Our industry demands hyper relevance. We can no longer reach all of an audience with a single mass televised message. We can’t even reach people on a 1:1 basis with 10 messages. We need 100’s of hyper personalized messages. This process is not an inherently creative one. AI relieves the workflow challenge to let creatives focus on bigger ideas.
A software engineer in Mexico put it this way: with AI support he could now leave work on time to feed his kids and play with them. A Colombian white-collar worker said AI made her efficient enough to cook with her mother on a Tuesday instead of finishing tasks. These are stories about a species that built an economy so demanding that cooking with... See more
What do you want from AI?
Anthropic AI study
It might seem like I talk about whatever’s surfacing in the algorithm, but the root of my thinking comes from pre-existing theory and literature.Debord, Baudrillard, Fisher, Lacan, Byung-Chul Han, Sontag, Mckenzie Wark, Varoufakis, Lyotard, Zizek (and so on).
Post-Culture by Sibling Studio • Working Theories with Eugene Healy
People have been trained for a top-down, centralised, linear, creative campaign-driven era in which everything laddered back to a single 30-60s television advert. Everything functioned according to a predictable model of plan, create, burst, track, repeat.
But in the new hyper-fragmented media landscape, there is no longer a single point of origin... See more
But in the new hyper-fragmented media landscape, there is no longer a single point of origin... See more