Iguess it’s high time that we asked ChatGPT how to talk to our kids about AI . I’m kidding! The dull composites that generative AI tries to pass off as “ideas” are definitionally average, and since reading Karen Hao’s book Empire of AI , the looming real-world ravages of AI infrastructure are no longer abstract to me — they’re unignorable. As Tressie McMillan Cottom put it back in March , “It is precisely because I use new technology that I know mid when I see it.” So yeah — I’m not that interested.

My own feelings about using generative AI aside — no, I don’t agree that it’s “fun to use,” grow up! — let’s not make the same mistake we made the last time we were faced with figuring out how to approach a world-transforming technology that its developers insisted was inevitable

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