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Great article again!

You may appreciate these "artificial clichés" made with stable diffusion.

https://medium.com/tag/artificial-clich%C3%A9s

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Wow really fantastic article, I feel like it got to the core of a lot of the asssumptions and mentalities I’ve personally seen working in the fields of data science and tech. And really got me thinker far deeper than I have before. I can’t overstate how much I appreciate your work!

In particular I resonated with the unquestioned assumption that the boxes we create (and the boxes algorithms create, ie in basic ML) are sound to use for correlation and even causation. I see constantly how we rarely stop to ask WHY we might be seeing certain correlations or WHY some metrics have such predictive power.

Michelle Jia’s “data is a form of attention” applies well here, especially as that form of attention to aspects of society becomes ingrained and amplified in generative AI.

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