Bruce Sterling @bruces

" the basic (and perhaps correct) nightmare scenario that the technology will destroy the history business" #atemporality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/magazine/ai-history-historians-scholarship.html

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

The New York Times
Jun 30, 2025 at 10:44amWeb
Show threadJames TindallJun 30, 2025
@bruces I wrote about that in Predictive Capital ;-) https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe

So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes our thought, then pronounces us dead.

CreativeApplications.Net
Show threadSteinar BangJun 30, 2025
@bruces I guess this is a case for having a record of history offline... on paper... or perhaps engraved into stone tablets...?