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Revolution in nonpoetic language Last week, citing a Business Insider item about that the word delve being possibly overrepresented in ChatGPT outputs…
Apr 23
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Everything's fixed
Recently, an NBA player was banned from the league for life for a variety of gambling-related activities, and a personal assistant to the highest-paid…
Apr 19
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Across the floors of silent seas
“Dead internet theory,” referenced in this recent Fast Company piece by Michael Grothaus, is a catchall phrase for the preponderance of bots and…
Apr 16
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Images of unphotographability
Sometimes when I am standing on the beach, staring out at the ocean, watching waves roll in, I will become moved with an inarticulate sense of the…
Apr 12
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Solve for eschatology
In principle, a TV adaption of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem by the producers who made Game of Thrones seems logical. They had success…
Apr 9
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So-called well-meaning
Nothing maps This Cartography of Generative AI, produced by the Estampa collective, presents a clarifying exposition in a series of numbered paragraphs…
Apr 5
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Captcha culture
I’ve been meaning to write more posts to fulfill the promises of paywalled content for subscribers, but I have been inhibited by various doubts and…
Apr 2
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March 2024
No one's version
I am not usually interested in alternate histories or fan fictions, but I have a weakness for the mp3 blogs that offer Albums That Never Were or Albums…
Mar 29
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Squares and squares and circles
Shrimp Jesus Who among us will cast the first stone at shrimp Jesus? I hesitate to talk about him because I believe that AI-generated content is…
Mar 22
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Spacing the cans
Perfunctory brands What work is the “Happy Harvest” brand doing on this can of tomato paste from Aldi? It’s not competing with other brands of canned…
Mar 15
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Truth and consequences
Last week, Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media reported on the ghost kitchens that use AI-generated images on GrubHub and DoorDash to represent the food you…
Mar 8
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Practico-inertia
Google recently released an generative model called Gemini but had to suspend its image-generation capabilities because of how it was programmed to…
Mar 1
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