This bit in a report about Digital Book World’s attempt to grapple with AI is extremely funny to me.

Imagining Immortan Joe up there on the panel roaring “COMMERCIAL”

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/retailing/article/91313-digital-book-world-2023-the-future-of-ai-writing-and-audio.html?mc_cid=e88f2e1b2f&mc_eid=c3ccf895ad

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@kissane The one thing I feel like saying about this “AI” stuff in public right now is that it has a touchstone-like capacity to get people to essay heartstoppingly bad takes in whatever direction is most revealing of their character flaws.

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@kissane I mean it just made me hypocritically scold a bunch of people so.

@vruba @kissane

Reading this is causing me to take a long self-regarding look

and decide that I *like* the flaw of hypocrisy I'm seeing:

grandiose distaste ✔️
for the machinery of capital ✔️✔️
that pays my salary ✔️✔️✔️

@fonts Robin, you’ve never made a bad blog post. If you tried, you’d bungle it and accidentally make another good one.

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