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
You can read more from Jenn at https://jennzuko.wordpress.com and on her Substack
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Episode 5: Brian Farrey
Episode 4: Delia Tramontina
Episode 3: Geoffrey Goodwin
Episode 2: Gavin Pate
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