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   Aram Sinnreich (aram@aoir.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 05:11:58 JST Aram Sinnreich

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   • Clive Thompson

   @clive ...predicted by #DouglasAdams in the first Dirk Gently book.

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 05:12:00 JST Clive Thompson

     The “Boring Apocalypse” of AI …

     … is when people in corporate and political life use large language models to generate a geyser of memos and emails and documents …

     … which so drown their recipients that they themselves use AI to autosummarize them

     Machines talking to machines, with humans as bystanders

     It’s a coinage of Jonathan Frankle,and I like it!

     My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-boring-apocalypse-of-todays-ai-6365345444a8

     A friend link, if you’re not not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-boring-apocalypse-of-todays-ai-6365345444a8?sk=d3fc1a0c86c558e0bf22dcfdbdcead52

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.