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Lincoln Michel
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Lincoln Michel
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Newsletter: countercraft.substack.com
- AI's flaws remain a million times more interesting than its strengthssomebody on Reddit told ChatGPT to replicate an image of The Rock without changing anything 100 times over
00:00 - The AI critics have been proved right about basically everything so far. But one thing that has surprised me is how much the companies are trying to FORCE us to look at GenAI. Top of every Google search. Bottom of every viral tweet. No way to let users turn off. Seems desperate.
- Maybe some people just shouldn't be allowed near $50,000.
- Oh man he is like illiterate illiterate, isn't he?Joyce did it. She made him tweak Grok
- Replying to @ossvaryI don't think that's true. Calculators were interesting for their ability to solve math problems, not for errors they made! But perhaps true in (broadly speaking) art?
- Mulholland Drive is a masterpiece and deserves all the praise. But I do think it's sad/funny that it's his most canonized film basically because unimaginative fans and critics view it as a puzzle box movie that they've solved and "makes sense" so they can ignore the mysteries.
- I've beaten this drum a lot but this is actually underselling the danger. Students are learning to avoid all work in all subjects. It isn't only literacy. Many won't know basic math, have learned any history, etc.we are jumping off the cliff into mass illiteracy and nobody with any power at any major university or secondary school system is willing to do anything about it
- You can see that even with the calculator comparisons. With a calculator, you still have to understand the symbols and order of operations to solve a math problem. With ChatGPT you can copy and paste the math problem and copy and paste the answer without understanding anything.I think the argument of AI as a tool falls pretty flat on the basis that the problem is that people / kids aren’t learning the craft and context of what they’re doing beforehand. It’s just become a complete replacement for thought and effort.
- Weird how these people still don't care if the output makes sense at all. Grimoires are books of spells, not blank pages. County fairs started in the 1800s. A golem is not a type of homunculus. Mountebanks are people who sell quack medicine, not persona shape shifters. Etc.like tell me this writing from r1 isn't actually good!
- Elon Musk's book meltdown reminds me of this funny exchange where he tried to argue that Iain Banks's anti-capitalist space opera novels agree with his world view. Bonus tweet: he thinks the lead character in Bladerunner is named Bladerunner.
- They invented a computer program that ruins film shots.This is unreal. Someone just reimagined Tarkovsky using AI-driven camera motion. What if the camera moved — but still felt like it belonged? Let me show you what that looks like:
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