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
@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.
@vruba Fully including me, tbh.
@kissane @vruba COMMERCIAL!!
@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 ✔️✔️✔️
@vruba @kissane *deletes draft blog post*
@fonts Robin, you’ve never made a bad blog post. If you tried, you’d bungle it and accidentally make another good one.
@fonts @vruba the demon will find you robin
This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.
@vruba Fully including me, tbh.