Unemployed writers have no power on their own. But if we could unite the masses of unemployed writers we could establish the worst most dysfunctional magazine of all time

Feels like the so-painfully-obvious-that-nobody-is-saying-it lesson from the night is that short-form video is now one of the chief mediums of American politics — and may be as important as TV for some electorates. Short-form video is where persuasion and name ID happen now.

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How the use of A.I. makes our brains less active, and our writing less original. nyer.cm/bFcvbpc

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Recent studies have found that those who use large language models like ChatGPT tend to converge around common words and ideas. Kyle Chayka reports on A.I.’s homogenizing effect on writing. nyer.cm/rASkV0B

I’ve never used AI for writing, ever (or for anything else). Real historians do the real work, and it shows in our results. newyorker.com/culture/infini…

Aditya Vashistha, compared the A.I. to “a teacher who is sitting behind me every time I’m writing, saying, ‘This is the better version.’ Through such routine exposure, you lose your identity, you lose the authenticity. You lose confidence in your writing.”newyorker.com/culture/infini…

Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes. nyer.cm/q10AXQC

The conditions for creativity are long thought, intense concentration, allowing your mind to wander—generative AI (and screen world generally) are our to destroy all these things

can men read??

Using LLMs in place of thinking is like smoking. Eventually it’ll kill you.

Google's Search Results are almost becoming Bloomberg Terminal - its just too much man! Too much content in the results + so many things which can be clicked + so many links which isn't sure if will open up a side panel or new results or will go to a webpage. All thanks to Head

the future belongs to the people who can make the most talking head videos about it

"Kids these days don’t start magazines; they go straight to launching creative consultancies and editorial workshops" deezlinks.com/p/they-are-the…

Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes. nyer.cm/CCR01ez