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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
We could have:
1. Countless local networks, many overlapping with each other.
2. A larger network of networks to allow for cross-network collaboration.
This *is* a design pattern we have seen work well in the past with email and Matrix. These platforms often function as networks of networks, allowing communities within them to have control over their own smaller networks but still allowing users on different providers to interact with each other seamlessly.
Agentic Computing
jzhao.xyz
I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of successful investment bankers in part because they help me understand why I was not, myself, a successful investment banker.
Money Stuff: IRL’s Users Were Not IRL
Matt Levine
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