[T]hese ads are trying to sell LLMs as a tool for sending routine business communications. They are trying to make it look natural to fuss over each email so neurotically that you gotta plug it into Grammarly before sending it. They soft-pedal whatever anxiety would drive someone to use an LLM to generate a routine business communication, then make the AI tool look like like a source of relief.

These ads are all embracing and even encouraging a kind of anxiety - like, anxiety-disorder level anxiety - that I find extremely dark and distressing.

Game-Designerin Laura Michet schreibt sehr treffend über das Marketing von LLM-Grammatik-Tool Grammarly. Die Macher sogenannter „AI“-Tools wissen sehr genau, dass ihre Produkte nicht wirklich irgendein echtes Problem lösen, und müssen uns daher erstmal ausgedachte Probleme einreden, die kein Mensch jemals hatte oder haben würde. Sie versuchen aktiv, uns abzutrainieren, wie normale Menschen miteinander zu kommunizieren.

Erinnert mich an diesen Post von tumblr-User*in lesbinewren:

we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

Vergleiche auch diesen sehr unterhaltsamen Text von Alan Kluegel bei Defector über einen bizarren Werbespot mit Matthew McConaughey für irgendeinen AI-Ramsch von Salesforce:

It is simply wild that Salesforce has this opportunity to highlight to a mass audience, even indirectly, their best and most promising use-case for AI, and here they are aggressively pitching an inscrutable solution to a non-existent problem. Often, what ruins advertisements aimed at the highest socioeconomic strata is a lack of relatability. (Is your banged-up old car elevator ruining your enjoyment of your Maui beach house?) In a mind-bending twist, that is not the problem here. The basics of this premise—a restaurant, a table, food, even a booking app—are extremely relatable to almost everyone; what makes this commercial an avant-garde experience is that at no point are the people on-screen relating to these perfectly ordinary things in a way that any human ever has.

The escalating attacks on Wikipedia from Elon Musk and other powerful figures on the American right follow a familiar pattern. First come the claims of bias, supported by cherry-picked or misrepresented examples. Then the demands for “balance”, which in practice mean giving equal weight to fringe views or demonstrably false claims. When these demands are refused, the attacks shift to the platform’s legitimacy itself: its funding, its governance, its leaders, and its very right to exist as an independent entity.

Molly White schreibt über Elon Musks Kreuzzug gegen Wikipedia, nimmt die Argumente von Musk und anderen rechten Trollen ernster, als sie es verdienen, und verteidigt Wikipedia dagegen, inklusive Einblicken in die internen Diskussionen und Kritik aus der Community selbst.

Kyle Mooney über SNL: „[W]e must all agree it’s not a healthy place to be.“

Mooney also recalled that SNL producer Erik Kenward once suggested that in “20, 30, 40 years, there might be some sort of study about PTSD associated with people who worked at that show, because it is such an intense onslaught,” adding that “it’s definitely not good for you. There’s no way it is.”

Sag ich ja.

We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book tellling people to “read my Amazon”. A great director trying to promote their film by saying “click on my Max”. That’s how much they’ve pickled your brain when you refer to your own work and your own voice within the context of their walled garden. There is no such thing as “my Substack”, there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification.

Anil Dash erklärt, warum ihr euren Newsletter nicht euren „Substack“ nennen solltet.

Lange, aber sehr gute und unterhaltsame Zusammenfassung des Dramas, das gerade bei WordPress abgeht. Matt Mullenweg (Automattic-CEO) führt sich sehr ähnlich auf wie Musk bei der Twitter-Übernahme, es ist absurd und traurig und könnte noch weitreichende Konsequenzen haben.