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After the forest expands, we will become deeply sceptical of one another's *realness*. Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you'll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine? Is there a *being* on the other end of this web interface I can form a relationship with?

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Maggie Appleton

In the three years since ChatGPT’s launch, AI videos have come to dominate the social web, copying and sometimes supplanting the human artists and videographers whose work helped train the systems in the first place.

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video

Drew Harwell & Gerrit De Vynck & Shira Ovide & Chris Velazco & Dan Lamothe & Tara & Alex Horton & Nick Mourtoupalas & Eric Lau & Hannah Dormido

The generation that has been formatted by the linguistic automaton is undergoing a mutation that is transforming the relationship between perception, conception, and execution.

New Heroes

e-flux.com

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