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AI is not as effective as it might appear

gamesradar.com

“Right now, most of the popular AIs are based on large language models,” AI Limit producer Yang Bin tells GamesRadar+ in an email interview. “Such tools can produce an imitation of the average value of a large amount of data. Our speculation is that within a short period of time, it won’t be able to create works that surpass the average level of its training samples. We hope to explore works that are more creative. Therefore, it doesn’t seem to have fundamental benefits for now.”

Enshittification as a matter of taste

daverupert.com

When a website adds one (privacy-preserving) ad to a website, I say “Okay”. Two, I permit it. Three, I say “Easy now” but still scroll through unencumbered. But when the website adds a fifth, seventh, twelfth ad… I know a person who lacks taste is at the wheel. I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect.

Ryan Norbauer: "What we got"

norbauer.co

We were promised a grassroots global bazaar; what we got was a creepy panopticon, purpose-built for authoritarians and monopolists. Instead of an egalitarian global community of man, we got the glow of a screen in an empty room, social media status anxiety, and AI companions mining our loneliness and vulnerabilities for better ad targeting. We have assassination drones, but flying cars are nowhere to be found.