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𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚊𝚕_𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎: 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎…
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. — William Gibson, Neuromancer
Gibson explained in an interview that it goes back further. In his mind, it was a 1950s set, before broadcast began. The silver cathode ray tube TV, still warming up. They didn't display static, and a black and white tube TV would have a sort of dark tarnished silver quality, while it warmed up and displayed nothing.
Even by 1981 that image was dated. Color TVs were normal, and they display a darker black on a 'dead' channel, and most people pictured the bright snow of a color set, not even the silver tone snow of a black and white, and not the the tarnished silver of a classic, tube receiver.
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ᴅ ᴏ ɴ ᴛ _ ʙ ᴇ _ ᴀ ꜰ ʀ ᴀ ɪ ᴅ .
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I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything
my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.
and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"
gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"
my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."
gallerist: "that isn't true."
and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.
so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.
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An attack for @rna-world
Took me a long time but I had fun! I planned to draw only Atlas but it's somehow escalated very quickly lol
