So many inputs in an an excellent article. I'll chose one: sentimental noise. It's generally completely absent from text generated by AIs. The first sign is a boring lack of any variation in rythm. The second one, lexical flattening. Reoccurring locutions and words are the "load-bearing" tell-tale. AIs seem to be obsessed with maps and territories, for instance. Their topological nature, I'd say.
This has become a creepy form of normalization. The ability to distinguish lifelessness is impaired, as if sentimental noise was no longer a need. The "just a tool" narrative, when used as disclaimer, is actually fog of war. A hammer, at least, leaves visible and sometimes painful traces when used badly. AI doesn't, for a lot of people, and the damage goes unnoticed. And progressively, eerily, slop becomes the new black.
Quite sharp takes yourself. There is a great flattening happening. Those with lower skill are bolstered up. It is great that we bring people up. But at what cost?
Real mastery, and that is itself a big risk. We maintain mastery for a lot of reasons. It is getting harder to tell the difference. Those with mastery, in whatever discipline, are losing value, making their skills less needed.
So it is a two way problem: upward motion and high end smoothing.
An N way problem, if we look from above and beyond, if we stop focusing on a specific topic. This normalization conflating skills and flattening emotions is dependent from "just a tool".
I'm afraid that the cost, still partially hidden, is bigger than it seems. The loss of identity I perceive is huge. The feeling - for me - is so devastating that each time I open a social I feel surrounded by a bunch of junkies who have learned how to skim a text, drop a sentence ordering their favorite soulless ghost writer to dump a shit, do some copy and paste, some lazy editing, done. Compound that with the additional unreliability of identity when there's an intermediation, and appearance replaces reality.
Some don't even read anymore, they just automate. They have their "just a tool" for it, they put the principle of least effort at work where effort and sweat should be the rule. They replace human contact. Baudrillard would call it the triumph of hyperreality, dominated by simulacra.
So many inputs in an an excellent article. I'll chose one: sentimental noise. It's generally completely absent from text generated by AIs. The first sign is a boring lack of any variation in rythm. The second one, lexical flattening. Reoccurring locutions and words are the "load-bearing" tell-tale. AIs seem to be obsessed with maps and territories, for instance. Their topological nature, I'd say.
This has become a creepy form of normalization. The ability to distinguish lifelessness is impaired, as if sentimental noise was no longer a need. The "just a tool" narrative, when used as disclaimer, is actually fog of war. A hammer, at least, leaves visible and sometimes painful traces when used badly. AI doesn't, for a lot of people, and the damage goes unnoticed. And progressively, eerily, slop becomes the new black.
Quite sharp takes yourself. There is a great flattening happening. Those with lower skill are bolstered up. It is great that we bring people up. But at what cost?
Real mastery, and that is itself a big risk. We maintain mastery for a lot of reasons. It is getting harder to tell the difference. Those with mastery, in whatever discipline, are losing value, making their skills less needed.
So it is a two way problem: upward motion and high end smoothing.
An N way problem, if we look from above and beyond, if we stop focusing on a specific topic. This normalization conflating skills and flattening emotions is dependent from "just a tool".
I'm afraid that the cost, still partially hidden, is bigger than it seems. The loss of identity I perceive is huge. The feeling - for me - is so devastating that each time I open a social I feel surrounded by a bunch of junkies who have learned how to skim a text, drop a sentence ordering their favorite soulless ghost writer to dump a shit, do some copy and paste, some lazy editing, done. Compound that with the additional unreliability of identity when there's an intermediation, and appearance replaces reality.
Some don't even read anymore, they just automate. They have their "just a tool" for it, they put the principle of least effort at work where effort and sweat should be the rule. They replace human contact. Baudrillard would call it the triumph of hyperreality, dominated by simulacra.