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Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
In fact, the dental-office “badness” of so much of the A.I. art is precisely why I don’t dispute Alexander’s assertion that people preferred it. Like any LLM output, A.I.-generated images are designed to please, not to provoke. [I’ve argued before that these images are, by their nature, almost unavoidably kitsch](https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-ai-art-spiral-images-tell-us)--comforting, straightforward, accessible, flattering. And people love kitsch!
People Prefer A.I. Art Because People Prefer Bad Art
Max Read
But the community feels different now, now that many of its participants have different values. When you share something for free, the first thing that happens is that someone else will sell it.
Sharing in the Presence of Computers and Corporations - macwright.com
macwright.com
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