The confusion began when we began letting them call this stuff "content" rather than, say, "expression." Content is a consumable substance which may as well be synthesized if you can. Expression is an attempt to communicate some aspect of the experience of being alive.
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Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab
“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974
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Yes, and one of them became a whistleblower.
i treat anyone who says "well it's all hopeless, guess i just have to profit off the current state of affairs" as actively complicit and you should too.
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They're weaponizing people's natural reluctance to be confrontational. Just horrible bullying stuff
Things people did *not* hate en masse when they were first introduced: calculators, personal computers, word processors, the internet, code editors, photoshop, game engines. Those were all pretty universally seen as empowering!
To put it more neutrally: I really think we have yet to reckon with why some people like this stuff just fine and other people absolutely hate it
"Critics of LLMs" are constantly told the need to acquiesce to the terms of debate set by those who seem utterly incurious as to why so many people reflexively recoil from LLM output
(I enjoyed the post by the way!)
Right. In that respect it seems (imo) in line with every other kind of genAI content: novel/impressive at first, but tiresome to take in once you learn to recognize it. I'm not sure that can really be worked around! It feels like a meta-characteristic.
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"boyfriends of chatbots" is killing me
This is thoughtful but I disagree that AI games are dull because they share the "soft logic" of human interaction. Games driven by human-to-human interaction (Werewolf, D&D, etc) can be endlessly compelling. The problem is that genAI is inherently boring. franklantz.substack.com/p/why-no-ai-...
(And I'm not convinced coding is immune from that limitation, insofar as it's also a means of expression. It may even be a domain in which the effects are less immediately obvious but more structurally profound in the long-term)
Setting aside it's utility for coding (not for me, but that's beside the point), every manifestation of genAI as "content" becomes oppressively tiresome once the novelty of it is absorbed. That seems like a pretty fundamental limitation!
This is thoughtful but I disagree that AI games are dull because they share the "soft logic" of human interaction. Games driven by human-to-human interaction (Werewolf, D&D, etc) can be endlessly compelling. The problem is that genAI is inherently boring. franklantz.substack.com/p/why-no-ai-...
"The soft logic of generative AI is too much like the soft logic of other people. Other people aren’t intrinsically fun."
I'd argue the popularity of tabletop RPGs and other kinds of collaborative storytelling argues against this. GenAI seems to me intrinsically less interesting than people.
There are surely worse timelines, but I have difficulty imagining a more disgusting one
There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things
we should be opposed to the consolidation of power if only because the main thing this consolidated power is used for is exploding and starving babies
before it was the airplane, the submarine, and the nuclear bomb, but our gen's tech for accelerating the consolidation of power is AI, full stop
Hot take: Pleading for [insert medium] to be taken seriously as art is a waste of time, and annoying. The only convincing argument is to make some good art with [insert medium].
Here's a series of posts in which he interviews workers in industries where AI is replacing them: www.bloodinthemachine.com/s/ai-killed-...
(I don't know which posts are public but it's well worth a subscription)
Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) does excellent and informed reporting from a leftist/labor perspective at www.bloodinthemachine.com
When people treat rejection of AI as a rejection of "the future" it makes my head explode. Do you really believe the future laid out by venture capitalists is the only one, and the most desirable?
This is how you "democratize art." You make it possible for humans to make it. And for a tiny fraction of the trillions being spent on data centers for slop generators
"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
No problem! The desktop versions are in actionscript and 100% my code, the others are in various languages depending on the platform (ObjC for iOS, Java for Android, etc) w/ some external libraries to assist. It's mostly code-drawn but in some cases I'm using bitmapped versions of flash animations.
