Fun With AI
ai users are so conditioned to writing unnecessarily verbose prompts that they even write their memes like that. pic.twitter.com/2Dj0lOJRo7 — George Crudo (@GeorgeCrudo) August 28, 2023 As I've noted here now and then, I've resumed writing for literary web zines after about a 15-year break. One thing that didn't exist in the earlier time was AI. AI is very political, and the literary web zines are almost unanimous in forbidding the use of AI. According to the UK Guardian , The self-published zine has long been central to cultural revolutions, from queer activism to Black feminism and the riot grrrl punk movement, producing titles such as Sniffin’ Glue and Sweet-Thang along the way. But now the traditionally analogue art form faces a new shift: artificial intelligence. AI may seem incompatible with the these cult DIY booklets, but some creatives, designers and artists have begun to experiment with the technology, causing alarm in parts of the underground publishing ...