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I also broadly think that if a piece of work is generated entirely by AI and is good, then I can probably enjoy that. But I’ve also read a whole lot of things written entirely by humans that I didn’t enjoy. Things are good or they are bad. I don’t think that is dependent on the tool used to produce it. An Aphex Twin album produced on an Amiga is... See more

One of the things that raises my hackles is the claim that the only reason not to be in awe of these technologies is that you haven’t used them enough. It’s certainly true that people who use ChatGPT a lot come to think it’s great, but I’m not sure whether that’s because they’re discovering its extraordinary depths or because they’re sort of... See more

AD: Okay, let’s talk about some AI stuff? You write a ton and you think a ton, but it sounds like with neither of those, you find AI all that helpful.

MB: Well, no, because almost everything I write or think about is either too particular for convergence machines like LLMs to have anything to say about it, or I want to know what I think or what the... See more

There’s this funny balance where some writers get way too purist about it and they’re like, I don’t want to have to package my work up for the masses and for the hordes . I think if you really believe in the quality of your work, you owe it to your work to package it in a way where it can reach the most people. There’s obviously a way to do it that

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And so a lot of the books that I now think of as foundational to how I see the world, to my aesthetic worldview, my ethical worldview, I just found out about because people would post on Reddit or Twitter. I think that is something really special about the internet, that you do not need to be in the right family context, geographic context, social... See more