LUCINDA OBRIEN
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LUCINDA OBRIEN
“Faking ‘realness’ on a computer doesn’t get us anywhere new.” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on imperfection as design strategy
itsnicethat.com
“Designers and illustrators are stuck in a bind: analogue signals value, but digital is what’s feasible.”
ChatGPT pulls the user “toward the center of mass for all of the different users that it’s interacted with in the past.” As a conversation with an A.I. tool goes on, the machine fills up its “context window,” the technical term for its working memory. When the context window reaches capacity, the A.I. seems to be more likely to repeat or rehash material it has already produced, becoming less original still.