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What if, however, most people didn’t aspire to make content, to be content, to pursue fame, to subordinate friendship to commercial practice? The rise of social media was largely an effort to normalize the choices of “prosuming” and ultimately living life as content, which may have enriched the platforms and a handful of individual users but further imposed its terms, its anxieties and competitive pressures, on the billions of the rest of us.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
I now want to turn to a specific case that does not hang on generative AI introducing distortions by generating false outputs but turns, instead, on the way that these systems respond to and sustain our own (proto-)delusional ideas.
L.L.M.s appear to have a “seeing as” machine at their core. They represent each word with a series of numbers denoting its coördinates—its vector—in a high-dimensional space.
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | the New Yorker
James Somers
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