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Clive Thompson

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Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/

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Excellent @jasonkoebler.bsky.social piece at @404media.co about the cultural shift in real-world and online flyers ... ... as people start posting AI-generated ones that all have the same bland creepy look www.404media.co/we-are-livin... (unpaywalled, just in case: archive.is/…

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co

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404 Media's Jason Koebler documents ChatGPT-designed flyers for surf lessons, skate shop closeouts, drug deliveries, World Cup parties, junk hauling and fundraisers.
The shared look — bright text on dark backgrounds, generic icon boxes, decorative lines, arrows and checkmarks — has become so recognizable it reads as a template.
A viral Threads post asking 'ain't nobody gonna address this ChatGPT flyer pandemic' has spread to Instagram and Facebook among designers, musicians and bar owners.

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I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for pinpointing how I actually feel about various aspects of AI. At the same time, I don’t think my result (“The Kontextmaschine”) quite fits… [bambamramfan.github.io]

The AI Compass bambamramfan.github.io View on Bluesky →

Here's Ted Chiang on the idea that LLMs can be conscious Link: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... Unpaywalled just in case: archive.is/bcpZl

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com

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so, I wrote a piece for the @nytimes.com Magazine ... ... about small businesspeople using OpenClaw -- a "harness" for AI -- to try and automate chunks of their jobs sometimes it works quite well sometimes it drives *straight* into a wall often, both! gift link: www.nytimes.co…

The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees nytimes.com

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archive.is

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