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Dan O'Hara - Genealogy of Machines, Ch. X 290
answering the question, the machine supplies "torrential ambiguity": the "capricious tiger is blue, yellow, black, white, green [...]". Is this 'true' colour a non-eternal, contingent, variable truth; the differing, mutating truths of perspectivism, or history, or linguistic definition; or the truth of all the morphogenetic possibilities inherent in the combinatorial components of the tiger?
Text and Image Generation. Then finally there’s a type that’s been very much in everyone’s mind recently: so-called generative AI or, more aptly, synthetic media machines. These are systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, or DALL-E that allow users to generate images or plausible-sounding text based on textual prompts. A “prompt”, in generative AI terminology, is the words used to describe the desired output.
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Liberals and many leftists after Trump took it upon themselves to solve this crisis of historical knowledge by teaching everyone high school civics classes again, thinking this would solve the problem. Rachel Maddow explained to MSNBC’s audience every night that what was happening with the bad orange man was just like when the Communists did us dirty; it’s like it was Back Then again.
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute
Matthew Ellis
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