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Biblioteque's avatar
Biblioteque May 2
Biblioteque

This is great! Thank you! However: I will point out that while analytical AI is in fact a helpful tool (cancer research, anyone?) generative AI - the ChatGPT kind - is an ecological tire fire (look up AI server farms if you want to be horrified at the water waste) and prone to giving crap-quality results. It's not that the technology is inherently bad; it's that how it's created fucks over the planet, and how it's trained fucks over content creators.

We absolutely need hope. Literally everything else here is a wonder. I just disagree that (generative) AI is all that hopeful.

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Sandy Herz
May 2

Narratives of hope and possibility are their own form of resistance. Everything around us right now is conspiring – quite intentionally – to make us feel isolated, anxious, and fearful, but it doesn’t have to be this way. What might be possible if we flip the script and focus on the best of human nature instead, bringing an asset frame to our potential not just as individuals but as a society?

sandyherz.substack.com/p/whats-going-right
May 2
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