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Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
My information consumption philosophy is simple:
(1) It must have a long shelf life.
(2) It must have taken considerable effort to create.
With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.
Nick Maggiullix.com“Content” is the black hole of the Internet. Incredibly well-produced videos, all sorts of songs, and articulate blog posts — they are all “content.” Are short stories “content”? I hope not, since that is one of the most soul-destroying of words, used to strip a creation of its creative effort.
I have a beef with “content”
In talking about these medieval manuscripts, Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker:
Which is interesting, recognizing not only the absolute vale of content but also its relational value, the value not just of information itself but also of information architecture, not just of content but also... See more
Our minds were altered less by books than by index slips.
Which is interesting, recognizing not only the absolute vale of content but also its relational value, the value not just of information itself but also of information architecture, not just of content but also... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
