Alexa says the 2020 election was stolen. What does it mean for 2024? It means that chatbots and AI-devices stay an unreliable source for information for the foreseeable time. I can't wait for the ultracustomized, ideologically aligned open source AI-models driving the smart speakers of the future. Like a customized Fox News, but more intimate and made to match every of your media dietal desires. Gonna be a blast.

"Why should we treat images as 'records of our lives' rather than potentially something else, as whims or jokes or wish-fulfillments? Why would anyone assume that looking at an image is enough to make us remember precisely what it captured? Is AI 'horrifying' because it reminds us yet again that what we already take to be real is a brittle construct, that human memory is not computer memory, that the social relations necessary to sustain meanings across time can’t be automated?"
I'm not sure if AI is horrifying, but i did write about wishful mnemonics in Teenage Kicks in context of the TikTok-teenage filters and AI-anachronisms, and extrapolating from that, i think that a liquid personal archive we can edit on a whim is such a new cultural development we simply don't know how it's effects will look like. It's very possible that the ubiquity of photo editing will make us very aware that photos are not really representative of reality, but it may also be that it makes our archives irrelevant for documenting the world, when these documentations become fully editable without effort.

Wanted: High Performers for the Last Job You’ll Ever Have imagines a company in which high performance employees agree to train mimetic AI-models on their every move and automatize themselves, while staying employed and cashing in. Sounds outlandish, but i think this is not a bad idea in a capitalism-eats-itself sense? And to go even further: I bet this will happen sooner than you think in stock trading with traders selling AI-models trained on their performance to the highest bidder. Think an AI-model trained on the investment patterns of Warren Buffett. I want to see this, and if only to see it all go up in flames.

In the paper Art or Artifice? Large Language Models and the False Promise of Creativity AIs fail to pass a creativity test and I'm not impressed, because at one point in the future, they will pass this test too. But even then those models still are not creative, because creativity is a mental process which's output we may be able to simulate, but we can't synthesize the process itself (yet).