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🔗 AI’s Walking Dog

Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process by Brian Eno.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s wildly hubristic visions of the future downplay any downsides, dismissing these as “safety-ism.” I for one wish there had been a few more “safety-ists” around when the algorithms for social media were being crafted.


The experience of what happened with social media is a bad omen for what might happen (and is happening!) with AI. Two words —“maximize engagement”— were all that was needed to send social media into the abyss of spleen-venting hostility where it now wallows.


For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others. It’s like getting the postcard instead of the holiday. …
The joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it.

Via Damon Krukowski.

Andrés Cárdenas
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