Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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closed net cultures such as One Direction fandom do produce a lot of creative work, but it’s basically like the inside jokes you come up with at summer camp rather than innovations that will diffuse into the mainstream.
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
We shifted from cyberpunk manifestos, to corporate networks and the commoditization of the user for economic extraction.
Reggie James • Political Expectations
As a more right-leaning crowd of tech elite and terminally online Gen-Z founders emerged, they turned against politics in the workplace and globalism. Sharing technology globally had put Silicon Valley’s tech leadership at risk of being overtaken by China, some said.
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AI is very bad, actually: A manifesto
juliesetele.com
Key findings include:
- Globally people are both excited and nervous about AI . Fifty-three per cent say they are excited for products and services that use AI, compared to 50% who say AI makes them nervous. Asia is where excitement is highest while the Anglosphere and Europe are most sceptical.
- Humans are viewed as more likely to discriminate than
The Ipsos AI Monitor 2024: Changing attitudes and feelings about AI and the future it will bring
“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
Federico Fellini
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
By volume alone, slop may be the most visible and successful by-product of the generative-AI era to date. It is also a hallmark of what I’ve previously described as a collective delusion around artificial intelligence—where the breathless hype and imagined future of building a godlike superintelligence and curing cancer collides with the dull... See more
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To me, it’s very important to think about speculative fiction and worldmaking as two approaches for better orienting ourselves to the present, rather than conjuring escapist utopian futures that will never arrive.