École des Bro-ArtsI never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it.
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
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The spiral becomes infinity,
Infinity becomes spiral,
All becomes One becomes All…
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https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-dynamics
In the same way that the soul-less corporate memeplex of millennial computing found new life in vaporwave, or how Hotel Pools invents a lush false-memory dreamscape of 1980s aquaria, I expect what we call “AI slop” today will be the Frutiger Aero of 2045.
https://aphyr.com/posts/413-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-culture
I worry that the advent of image synthesis will make it harder to mobilize the public for things which did happen, easier to stir up anger over things which did not, and create the epistemic climate in which totalitarian regimes thrive.
https://aphyr.com/posts/414-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-information-ecology
45 minutes later you’ll receive an inscrutable six hundred page email transcript of this chicanery along with a $90 taco delivered by a robot covered in glass.
https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances
felix (grayscale) 🐺@aphyr unfortunately the AP is heavily into AI, they use it a lot and want to use it more
https://www.ap.org/solutions/artificial-intelligence/
https://www.ap.org/solutions/artificial-intelligence/
Nick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧@aphyr tysm for these thoughts and words, Kyle! ✌️💙
Boy/Pup Praxis@aphyr Footnote 1 healed something inside of me.
@dkub I had to gut-check this with three other faggots before including it in the piece (also hi I love Kim Petras)
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Owen@aphyr Mulling on New Media a bit: _books_ - even in the amputated form of a Substack or a LinkedIn Thinkpiece - represent the idea that the written word has some inherent value, something that makes it worth collecting in durable form. _How_ durable varies greatly - Tolstoy or Tacitus might be read centuries later, while a Linkpiece forgotten after days - but it's always there.
@aphyr The LLM-mediated information future you describe, convincingly, and the LLM-mediated information future companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are advancing, are predicated on the written word being eminently disposable - not just forgotten after a few minutes, but irrelevant almost as soon as it's read, or heard via TTS.
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