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This week, @NYMag published a very good feature story on low-grade AI-created content taking over the Internet and making it worse. It’s about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop:
https://t.co/b6wc8r169l
This is a great feature by @readmaxread in the new issue of @NYMag about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop: https://t.co/tUOagvvvFr
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Reddit revolts. Plus: @readmaxread joins to to discuss what we can learn from Mr. Beast. And we debate whether trust and safety was a ZIRP https://t.co/5ldI6eJB9L
This week on Hard Fork:
• What's fueling the Reddit revolt?
• Max Read on MrBeast
• Was trust and safety a zero-interest-rate phenomenon?
https://t.co/qiRfYWkAcJ
IMO the piece pairs well with my interview with TikTok Baby Gronk specialist "H00pify" in that both are about how Zoomer platform natives understand what they're doing and how it relates to sincerity
https://t.co/2uYe8iNTP4
max's substack, https://t.co/qyDSsXRvFI, is the best ongoing commentary for AI out there right now. Always finds something interesting and mostly avoids the "are we doomed" or "is this bullshit" binary
New ep! This week, we welcome back our friend @readmaxread for an anniversary chat. We unpack the labor and education dimensions of of A.I. ascendancy and get Max’s inside perspective on the WGA strike.
https://t.co/46TuBmiQFr
Breaking: 350+ leading AI researchers (including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind) have signed a remarkable statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction,” and comparing it to pandemics and nuclear weapons. https://t.co/Fllcgzlq0C
increasingly feels like "opposing sam altman's preferences" is the best heuristic for dealing with a.i. on a policy level, and probably with engaging it with it "philosophically" too
"Given this state of affairs it’s hard not to feel like 'Traffic' is making an inadvertent but compelling case that Gawker and BuzzFeed were, in the grand scheme of things, not particularly important." By @readmaxread https://t.co/J6ctDQ2QMU