It’s a software world. And because of software, it’s a soft world in a different sense, in the original sense of the world: it changes its shape easily.
Frank Chimero, paraphrasing in his must-read peace What Screens Want
AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them Casey Newton – The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote. xkcd, on statistics in Sports Commentary
I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns. Ted Chiang arguing that No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, but more importantly… Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology,
However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I