Generative AI isn't magic — it's a fantastical version of autocomplete that can't help but make the same mistakes it learned from the things it's stolen from others.  Anyone who tells you otherwise is getting rich off the death of the internet. tinyurl.com/wyea31124

excellent newsletter today, thank you

One area I'm curious to know how deep the sewer hole goes is music interpretation (genius, songmeanings, etc). Last few times I've searched an older song to understand a reference, there were websites with SEO friendly paragraphs with a literal interpretation of a song based on the *title*.

The episode of Silicon Valley where Guilfoyle creates a program to respond to Dinesh that everyone starts using so the programs all ping each other infinitely with nonsense except that’s the internet now, hooray!

Really interesting and thoughtful piece. I had a thought last year while this was all blowing up that we're headed toward an epistemic crisis with AI, where reliable information on the internet becomes very hard to find because everything has been so swamped with Gen-AI crap. This future sucks