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To put it simply, an object and the system around it are not the same thing. A work or work(s) can be still sincere even if the system around it is not. The layer that funds, selects and circulates it can still have reasons of its own.

That is the part of the CIA/modern-art story worth keeping. The Agency paid for a cultural network (e.g. funding the Congress for Cultural Freedom), and still does! There is no memo ordering abstract expressionism, and you do not need one, people already do that out of their own accord willingly. However, Shared assumptions plus a filter that decides what gets amplified will suffice, in their eyes. People must know this is not a conspiracy, but an ecology!

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People do this after basically every major AI model release (obviously), or even every breakthrough/shift/etc for that matter.

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people do this after basically every major AI model release

> “This changes everything”

followed by

> “You all say this every time. It is hype, nothing new.”

sure, comparing a new model to the previous generation, or to competing models, is interesting, useful, and often engaging

but i think there is another level that is more important to keep in view

not just individual releases, but how AI capabilities are moving across the ecosystem as a whole

for example, models that were expensive frontier models not that long ago are already being caught or passed by open-weight models you can run yourself

i do not think we take observations like this seriously enough, regardless of what your personal view on AI is

take a chart like this

a month, a year, or more from now, the names and order could look completely different, or surprisingly similar to what we see today

either way, the capability level represented by the whole chart will probably have moved drastically

there will be more breakthroughs, shifts, and other developments worth paying attention to

and these movements will probably accelerate

through it all, people will still be arguing about whether the latest model is “actually” a big deal

if we keep looking at each of these changes in isolation, i do not think we are giving ourselves much chance to properly understand, let alone prepare for where everything might lead

the question of who is #1 this month, as well as every other month before, feels much less important than where AI as a whole is heading, and what that trajectory ends up meaning for the rest of society.

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where to draw the line between critical thought and automation in any system?

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@bibispett i am merely a sinner.

i shouldnt be taking credit for other peoples work.

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Why not build in public?

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people have to keep drawing lines in the 'sand'

without contributive effort, the goal that which will benefit humanity in the highest will be slowed down

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@bibispett for the sake of humanity!

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@bibispett i am merely a sinner.