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Part of the process of stoking hype around generative AI are the many articles and tweet threads promising to let readers in on the tips and secrets of…
Rob Horning
I am imagining a scenario in the near future when I will be working on writing something in some productivity suite or other, and as I type in the main…
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A programming note: There is now a paid-subscription version of this newsletter. Nothing will change for non-subscribers — there will still be a post…
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Concern about algorithmic culture often recurs to the fear of a doom loop, the idea that nothing new will be possible because we will be fully embedded…
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“Messages are themselves a form of pattern and organization,” cyberneticist Norbert Wiener writes in The Human Use of Human Beings (1950). “Indeed, it…
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February 2023

If you are posting to a general audience on a social media platform, you are making an attempt at “influencing.” There is no coherent position from…
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In a since-deleted tweet, Ars Technica reporter Benj Edwards, after hearing reports that Bing’s chatbot was making up information about chats it had…
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This week, in a widely anticipated move, Google and Microsoft both announced their intention to augment search engines with large-language models. It…
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After Buzzfeed announced last week that it would use ChatGPT-derived tools to “enhance” and “personalize” some of its content, its stock price…
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January 2023

Last week, Emily Baker-White reported on TikTok’s internal “heating feature” — described as a “button that can make anyone go viral”: In addition to…
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Making the rounds this week was a mundane critique of AI that was notable mainly because it was made by musician Nick Cave, who was unsurprisingly…
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There are still some material and administrative obstacles to the dream of an ongoing, free-flowing conversation with a chatbot. ChatGPT is often…
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