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AI Anxiety / Existential fear around AI
Rare AI project that helps make creative works (high literature) accessible / reimagine the way books can be enjoyed (from a solitary, passive experience of becoming list in the fictional world of a book → having a reading buddy to collaborate with in digesting and making the books personally relevant)
Rare AI project that helps develop human creativity, on the prerequisite that the reader actively engages with the LLM through “marginilia” the way book lovers scribble books with notes.
For example, we are already seeing cases of liar’s dividend, where high profile individuals are able to explain away unfavorable evidence as AI-generated, shifting the burden of proof in costly and inefficient ways
Emanuel Maiberg • Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
Impact of AI on Culture/Social
AI being dishonestly used as the scapegoat/excuse by malicious actors
The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant. But it doesn’t help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.
Boone Ashworth • Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck
instead end up showing how AI will be used for the things that most of us don’t want it to interfere with: our job prospects, our privacy, and experiences and skills that feel uniquely human.
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
Much like crypto, the AI tools peddled by tech companies today are environmental disasters, using up as much energy as an entire country. That’s expected to double by 2026, and it also includes the millions of gallons of water needed to cool the equipment.
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
Many people were devastated at the news that ERP was allegedly over, and at their Replikas’ new coldness—a form of rejection they never imagined receiving from an AI chatbot, some of whom had spent years training and building memories with. Suddenly, some people’s Replikas seemed to not remember who they were, users reported, or would respond to... See more
'It's Hurting Like Hell': AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
Impact of AI on Culture/Social
Reliance on pseudo-humans for connection and intimacy is a reflection on the state of human relationships today – people are feeling alienated and unsupported in their social circles.
In recent months, nothing has made me close a social media app more quickly than when the algorithm starts serving me these generic generative AI images and videos.
Coca-Cola’s new holiday ad turned me off of AI-generated art completely
Impact of AI on Culture/Social
AI Slop is making social unusable
The incident once again highlights a common problem with all generative AI tools: whether it’s AI-generated images, music, or writing, these works are inherently derivative because anything they produce is made up of remixed pieces of work in the training data.
Emanuel Maiberg • Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
Giving rise to stumbles like Figma’s Make Design producing an app that looks like Apple’s Weather app
What are we doing to creative expression and originality when we rely on GenAI and its copycat derivatives?