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Redefining authenticity in the age of AI and new media: tools vs. intent, historical tech shifts, and creative effort.
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So it brings me to an interesting point because we've been hearing a lot about the word authenticity, especially as it relates to AI. So people saying, OK, AI is coming. There's going to be AI influencers. I mean, I think Adam Mazary did a big mini essay on Instagram talking about the rise of AI on the platform. And we know we see what you're
... See moreIn some cases, writing is a pretty impersonal force: if I want to answer some specific question about my taxes, I'm not using this as a pretext to develop some sort of personal connection with whoever is going to explain the nuances of the wash-sale rule or whatever. But in other categories—ones with a substantial overlap with what we think of as
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Preference for small, comprehensible businesses; valuing craftsmanship, limits, anti-optimization, and the philosophy of “enough.”
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I feel like they're more real. I like real things, for whatever that means. Define it however you'd like. But a billion-dollar business or a ten-billion-dollar business, just it doesn't feel like a real thing to me. It feels like a concept.
Meanwhile, the dry cleaner down the street, I can drop off my shirt. I get it cleaned. I bring it up. I pick
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