Generative AI: The Cultural Dominatrix Indefinitely Extending Postmodernism
There's a popular tourist attraction close to where I live called the Ballard Locks. It's an old lock complex that raises and lowers boats going between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, and it also has a pretty nifty fish ladder, which is why the site attracts more than 1 million visitors annually. But there's been a small, recent change involving an interpretive sign that has caused a bit of a stir, and it's all because of AI. Many people see this as yet another invasion of AI into the human world, but I interpret the presence of this banal AI-generated sign as a strong signal of something else entirely—it gives us great insight into the current cultural period.
When the pope and a white jacket, Harry Potter and a fashion brand, and a prestigious American university and an email all become mainstream news specifically because of generative artificial intelligence, that...
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