Always‑on AI Guides Free Us From Digital Drudgery
The winning vision is that always on AI guides (angels) liberate us from the drudgery of the attention trenches, screen time and back pain and help us to augment and discover things and people IRL
Call for Civility Amid Rising AI Culture War Tensions
I’ve been concerned about this AI culture war becoming violent for a long time and am of the unfashionable opinion we need a code of clarity and civility as this stuff is going to become a media frenzy that incentivizes...
AI Coding Amplifies Decades of Expertise for Bigger Projects
This is useful, also compliments that Jeremy Howard point on engineering vs coding He frames AI coding as an enhancer of 25 years of experience, and together now you can set higher ambitions as previously laborious projects can be unlocked...
AI Enhances Creative Therapy, Not Replaces Artists
Seems a category error to suggest you can’t work something out with the most useful tool we’ve ever had to work something out (ie simulate different scenarios quickly, look up threads quickly, challenge assumptions quickly) This argument is frustrating as it...
Bluesky's Custom Algorithm Lets You Build a Chronological Feed
The Bluesky write your own algorithm idea is really good The bot behind it is the second most blocked account on the site now, I assume because AI mentioned Do people not know all feeds are AI run, and if you just...
Transparency in AI Prompts Will End Writing Authenticity Debate
The great “is ai assisted writing real writing” debate will be over once OpenAI or Anthropic let people publish pieces with full reasoning and prompt attribution visible and available to prompt through The reasoning of the human and bot is...
AI Art's Originality Debate Mirrors Broader AI Misunderstandings
It's a worthy question AI art is distinct in being critiqued as a proxy for wider AI related questions and often misunderstandings. I'm fairly confident transporting any art object to an overseas show consumes more energy than almost any piece...
Rising AI Costs Create a Widening Access Gap
Interesting on the render gap that emerges when the frontier models may become too expensive for regular people to use regularly
Understanding arXiv Is Key to Modern Digital Culture
This is great I argued something complimentary in the alignDRAW book, that if you don’t know what arXiv is you very likely can’t fully comprehend the last 5 years of digital culture
Clients Demand AI Speed, yet Crave Hand‑crafted Look
Spoke to someone recently doing big commercial client work saying clients insist on AI speed and flexibility and yet insist on output looking believably like manual 3d generations so they don’t get backlash over it It’s all a bit silly and...
UK Drops Opt‑out Preference, Opens Doors for AI Labs
They clearly didn’t read the same report I did The report said the government now has no preference, having prior had the preference of a copyright exception with opt-out That could just as well mean we see a copyright exception with no...
Games Turn Players Into Massive Real‑World Data Sources
All media is training data Niantic was a lab that came out of Google, who had great road data for Google Maps but needed a way to improve their pedestrian data. As such they developed Ingress, an elegant way to have...
Guardian, FT Push AI Copyright Half‑truths for Profit
Guardian and FT really going hard on the half truths in relation to the AI copyright debate today There is a serious conflict of interest in advocating for policy that would directly benefit their publications at the expense of giving the...
Elegant Constraints Spark New Cultural Habits
This is really good. I do admire Dom Hofmann as a protocol artist, in the sense he creates constrained and elegant rules for others to create with With both Vine and Loot, those constraints created new cultural habits downstream, despite being...
LLMs Turn Writing Into Collaborative Reasoning Journey
Largely agree with the premise of this, in particular that often the best writing appears to be coming from someone who is trying to figure something out and takes you on that trip with them (The Flannery O'Connor quote is...