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The AI glut significantly exacerbates the issue of misinformation and low-quality content.
Curation Is the Last Best Hope of Intelligent Discourse.
Joan Westenberg
For two hundred years, the modern world has answered the question “Who are you?” with a reductive “What do you do?” The Industrial Revolution tied human dignity, quietly but ruthlessly, to economic output. We’ve lived inside what I call the GDP Era. And we’re now, in real time, watching that era end.
The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning
Longbeard
Why did Bim allow nothing to change? Surely Baba ought to begin to grow and develop at last, to unfold and reach out and stretch. But whenever she saw them, at intervals of three or five years, all was exactly as before.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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