Rec | IF YOU'VE ALREADY READ ABOUT AI SLOP, GO HERE NEXT

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if you've already read about ai slop, go here next

It's a bit of a slow burner, but I appreciate the technical details she focuses on. Like, what the tics of ai instruct us about human use of language and associations And I appreciate her overall philosophical take. She's not fighting all the ways ai is imperfect, while she acknowledges a couple of problems, but I think that by getting excited about how it's a mirror, she reveals a sort of optimism for the future. Here to stay, so let's have fun with the good bits N+1 article by Rachel Ossip

@heynah

Oct 25, 2024

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