Yet another powerful essay, Eryk. You've largely focused here on the noise introduced by AI with respect to images, it strikes me that LLM systems introduce the same noise into text. Since so much of our communication is premised on both, the prevalence of so much noise risks eroding human trust (as the philosopher Daniel Dennett is warning). We are counterfeiting humanity.
Yet another powerful essay, Eryk. You've largely focused here on the noise introduced by AI with respect to images, it strikes me that LLM systems introduce the same noise into text. Since so much of our communication is premised on both, the prevalence of so much noise risks eroding human trust (as the philosopher Daniel Dennett is warning). We are counterfeiting humanity.
This image always reminds me of Gus Haynes from The Wire and his immortal skepticism of the doll-at-scene-of-tragedy photographic trope.