Severin Matusek

“I can see from the little acquaintance that I have with using AI programs to make music, that what you spend nearly all your time doing is trying to stop the system becoming mind numbingly mediocre. You really feel the pull of the averaging effect of AI, given that what you are receiving is a kind of averaged out distillation of stuff from a lot... See more

To read these writers writing about AI writing is to witness, almost in real time, intellectual laborers assimilating a threat to their own existence.

Right now AI is fun parlor trick; it’s closer to personal tool than anything that will be deployed reliably enough to do the kind of economic shifting that its investors are betting it will.

This is a chance to bring warmth and fun into an increasingly lonely and isolated world.

It seems that everyone immediately knows what we’re talking about (possibly including you, the reader) but here are some examples to paint a picture:

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4. The increasing power of algorithm-driven curation. Today, curation is also being enabled and accelerated by the use of increasingly powerful personalization algorithms. One of the best current examples is TikTok’s “For You” page which uses a powerful algorithm to show users the content they want to see.

What appealed to me wasn’t the monetary use of blockchains but the idea that they could provide the basis for a more user-centric alternative to the unpleasant state of affairs known as Web 2.0.

The internet created the false impression that all socializing is authentic and improvisational. We’re discovering social lives are planned once again.