Simon Willison I think the framing of self-nullifying text from ChatGPT and Bing outputs on the internet basically traumatizing newer models into lower self-esteem is compelling.

Spotify adds AI to the world’s most antiseptic and soulless music experience, and you can guess how it goes

Meet the new President & CEO of NPR . 😬

This piece that compares how LLMs impress you to the work of a psychic con artist is somehow just under a year old, yet is arguably one of the more vicious takedowns I've read about AI.
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The illusionist analogy (advanced by Gary Marcus in an excellent Substack post today) has been my go-to explanation for AI for years. The key part: the audience completes the illusion.

The insight comes from seeing an audience watch themselves after an illusionist’s show. To be…

I fucking knew it.

'Purchasing an AI content farm is as easy as ordering on Uber Eats...'

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Truss stumbled into the real Deep State. Cuddly looking, cute even - but in reality, a sadistic trained torturer.

Yuval Noah Harari is going to be out of a job in a few years time, once AI development hits a brick wall and this accelerating post-human future he keeps prophesying doesn't arrive.

What other jobs could a failed prophet do?

Let's celebrate industrial society.

And he banned boilers and cars.

The Heisenberg quality of LTNs. They can simultaneously be nothing at all and a complete reinvention of urban living, depending on who you are talking to.

subconsciously, 'generative AI' is fuelled by enraged and violent resentment of people with creative skills; that's why the builders of the giant plagiarism machines claim that to type a prompt is to 'make' or 'create' artistic works — it's a rhetorical annihilation of craft

Javier Blas Coal is good. Just use coal.

'My girlfriend is also AI - and she's really hot!'

I'm sceptical of this particular study, but the fake plausibility is a significant factor in people wanting to trust the paste bots, when commonsense suggests they shouldn't.

It's their bedside manner. You have to be fairly strong-minded to disagree with one.

Equally, people…