Accept Discomfort

In this month’s discussion, we chatter about AI and all the ways that the robots are coming for our artistic expression. Instead of the robots being tasked with the dirty jobs, they’ll make our art while we scoop poop and pray that the billionaires will think to include us on their spaceship to Mars where we’ll scoop poop on the red planet.

 

Unless we fight back. 

 

Accept discomfort. 

 

 

Here are the articles we reference. 

 

From NPR: Sci-Fi magazine stops submissions after flood of AI generated stories

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1159118948/sci-fi-magazine-stops-submissions-after-flood-of-ai-generated-stories

 

From the NY Times: The Upshot

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/26/upshot/gpt-from-scratch.html

 

From the NY Times: Bing’s AI Chatbot

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

The Ezra Klein Show

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-culture-creating-a-i-is-weird-heres-why-that-matters/id1548604447?i=1000611417980

 

If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter's_night_a_traveler

 

                                                                                                                                    

 

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