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As a result, Large Language Models seem like *magic.* When you see everything as an outcome — an outcome you may or may not understand, and definitely don’t understand the process behind, let alone care about — you *kind of already see your workers as LLMs.*
The Case Against Generative AI
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
Now and Then” is symptomatic of the times, as Hatherley claimed, because it shows how technology will be used to rearticulate the empty promises of capitalism without coming any closer to fulfilling them. It is of a piece with Generative AI, which offers “creativity” as something to consume while helping gut the sort of economic environment that could nurture and sustain creativity as a social process.
The Beatles Did Not Take Place
Rob Horning
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