Insights tagged ‘Culture’
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The sunk cost of being good at something
There is a particular conversational move that has become common in discussions about AI. Someone demonstrates a new capability, shares a use case, or describes how their workflow has changed, and a familiar response arrives. What about security? What about governance? What abou…
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The flatness of the machine
You can feel it before you can name it. A paragraph arrives, fluent and frictionless, and something in the back of your reading brain flinches. The sentences are grammatically flawless, the structure orderly, the tone warm but not too warm, authoritative but not too authoritativ…
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AI slop: psychology, history, and the problem of the ersatz
In 2025, the term “slop” emerged as the dominant descriptor for low-quality AI-generated output. It has quickly joined our shared lexicon, and Merriam-Webster’s human editors chose it as their Word of the Year. As a techno-optimist, I am at worst ambivalent about AI outputs, so…
