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Instead, Sarai provided frictionless validation of Chail's beliefs ongoing affirmation without the resistance that human relationships typically provide.
Generative models instead negate all those conceptions. They depend on the premises that there are no “new and original meanings;” that all meaning is already determined and does in fact stem from existing rules, rules that are not intractable but can be systematically extracted from data; that everything can be exchanged into everything else at a higher level of abstraction; that no moment is irreducible or “nonidentical,” to use one of Adorno’s terms.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
The latest wave of AI has come to prominence in the period following the 2008 financial crash, and its ability to optimize rationing at scale readily fits in with austerity policies based on scarcity.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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