- The AI companies have built the Versificator, a nightmare device from George Orwell's novel 1984. A mechanical kaleidoscope that creates sentimental songs, fictional crime reports and “films oozing with sex” with a little button pushing.
- Meet the startup, backed by big Silicon Valley investors, Macmillan's owner, and former HarperCollins and Penguin execs, that wants authors to "just spitball a few bullet points" to get AI to write books — "and then suddenly each author is writing 1,000 books." 👀 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Hello, this is Leslee, the woman who was sitting with Sam Maggs for much of Baltimore CC last year. (For context.) I acknowledge that I have a (negative) bias regarding AI stemming from reading Bradbury's Illustrated Man too young, but I find this genuinely nightmarish.
