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Chatbots and other content generators are sometimes promoted as offering shortcuts around the work of being invested in something, so you can just get to the thing itself. This makes sense only for things you aren’t interested in thinking about in the first place. What they produce won’t be a revelation; it instead marks the absence of a process of discovery, an unmarked grave for a moment of curiosity.
That time, when we told ourselves and each other, 'We must do better,' what did we do differently, from then on, and why didn't it work?"
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
When one engages with AI models, the meaning of the process is systematically precluded. If, as Bernstein puts it, “freedom is the capacity to act anew, and art is that human practice in which human beings routinely produce new, unique items,” then generative models are the opposite, a foreclosure of the possibility to create new meanings, new unique items — things that can’t be virtually anticipated by an algorithmic process.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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