A crisis of artificiality

The world is getting increasingly artificial. And by world, I mean the online spaces most of us inhabit for many/most of our waking hours. 

I'm starting to wonder if knowledge and expertise as we know it isn't being rewritten and entirely outsourced to machines. I plan to post about some increasingly disturbing trends I'm seeing. 

I'm glad I wrote Flame and Crimson before generative AI, lest I be accused of having a machine do the work. I'm not using AI at all in my WIP metal memoir, either.

I'm not anti-AI. I think this tech has massive positive potential for humanity. In my own professional niche I've seen how it can for example allow physicians to offload burdensome documentation requirements and restore sanity to a burned out, overworked profession.

But I think in the creative realms gen AI something close to a cancer. It's definitely slop.

You will never see ChatGPT generated text on this blog. Or generative AI images. 

I value human beings and authentic creativity, the product of human minds and souls. It's why I revere live performances and continue to attend them. I believe in human beings, as fucked up and flawed as we often are.