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I’m kind of over complaining about AI, but this essay was great. Love the explanation on the origins of hyperlinks.
Jan 23, 2025
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👾A.I. used to make art cheaper and to avoid paying artists is abhorrent. Used to write speeches and summarize books reduces the practice and makes the accomplishment meaningless. It cheapens the process and provides no value. The way it’s being advertised is nothing short of disgusting. Google aired an ad where a father uses A.I. to help his daughter write a letter to her favorite athlete. Why are you shortcutting time spent with your daughter, teaching her how to put emotion into words, helping her work through something challenging? It’s soulless dreck. I’m tired of hearing about it, talking about it and thinking about all the ways it can ruin society. Since corporations and industry insist on shoving it down our throat, I think it’s (as always) our responsibility to demand better. The linked essay made me reconsider the use of it as a tool to expand, as you put it, as long as it’s not used to enable laziness and shortcuts.
Jan 14, 2025
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This is a fairly popular Substack post that people seem to find profound and insightful but skimming through it, it was clearly written with generative AI. I’ve been noticing it more and more recently (I’m pretty sure the script of this video was also AI generated https://youtu.be/mI-0I9JK6Us?si=FMf2394bO1MR13Ox sorry lol it doesn’t work when I try to edit embedded links) and I’m surprised when nobody seems to notice or point it out. The parallel sentence structure, strange unnatural cadence, and “it’s not X it’s Y” are huge tells…
“You’re not protecting your energy. You’re hoarding it. You’re not setting boundaries. You’re building a fortress and expecting people to thank you for the locked door and to not lock their own.”
Let’s not even get started on the em dashes I’m upset about it as a longtime em dash fan and parenthetical lover. It’s disappointing and kind of crazy to see slop like this being passed off as someone’s original work and people just eating it up…
“You’re not protecting your energy. You’re hoarding it. You’re not setting boundaries. You’re building a fortress and expecting people to thank you for the locked door and to not lock their own.”
Let’s not even get started on the em dashes I’m upset about it as a longtime em dash fan and parenthetical lover. It’s disappointing and kind of crazy to see slop like this being passed off as someone’s original work and people just eating it up…
Jul 4, 2025
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It's a bit of a slow burner, but I appreciate the technical details she focuses on. Like, what the tics of ai instruct us about human use of language and associations
And I appreciate her overall philosophical take. She's not fighting all the ways ai is imperfect, while she acknowledges a couple of problems, but I think that by getting excited about how it's a mirror, she reveals a sort of optimism for the future. Here to stay, so let's have fun with the good bits
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And I appreciate her overall philosophical take. She's not fighting all the ways ai is imperfect, while she acknowledges a couple of problems, but I think that by getting excited about how it's a mirror, she reveals a sort of optimism for the future. Here to stay, so let's have fun with the good bits
N+1 article by Rachel Ossip
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