y’all. it turns out this thing is actually real and it’s one of the most extraordinary things i’ve ever seen.
these are your garden-variety nighttime exposures (2-3s) from my iPhone camera. it actually looks like this to the naked eye. it’s otherworldly and magical and constantly changing, scintillating, fading in and out, the colors shifting. i’ve never seen anything like it. it was like something from a dream.
#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.
notice how they are - creating work for us rather than saving us work - automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes - flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community - distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans
that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.
i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.
#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.
notice how they are - creating work for us rather than saving us work - automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes - flooding social networks with generated content that makes...
i hope, though, that this exponential flood of inhuman content will finally make it impossible not to see that we all have inherent value regardless of what we produce or consume.
care about the world because caring matters. make art because it matters. *you* matter. each of us contains infinities the machines will never understand. don’t let them try to tell you that you can be replaced; you can’t. none of us can.
always ask yourself who benefits from your apathy, your overwhelm, your exhaustion, your loneliness.
i hope, though, that this exponential flood of inhuman content will finally make it impossible not to see that we all have inherent value regardless of what we produce or consume.
care about the world because caring matters. make art because it matters. *you* matter. each of us contains infinities the machines will never understand. don’t let them try to tell you that you can be replaced; you can’t. none of us can.
@kat so awesome! At what time did you take the photos?