As a climate scientist I despair at inaction on climate change. As a person, I despair at our collective indifference to avoidable suffering.
But I am not sure that anything has caused me as much despair as the casual abandoning of that which makes us human - our creativity and communication.
Rage Against the Miocene
"Ante-ChatGPT, more than ninety-eight per cent of all English-language articles being published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half of such articles" 😬
Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.
