Hey folks! If you enjoy my writing, I have a new series on Rock, Paper, Shotgun starting today about what generative AI is, how it might affect games, and what's coming next. It's a short series, and part one is up today, focusing on the language we use to discuss AI:
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in reply to @mtrc's post:
the "visibility" point is important -- I'm reminded a lot of the discourse around Auto-Tune, which is ubiquitous in vocal processing but only criticized when it's exceedingly obvious (and often obvious on purpose)
similarly, chatgpt is almost certainly being used in writing lyrics, right now, but unless a songwriter is unwise enough to publicly talk about this, it will probably not be remarked upon
Yes, absolutely. Something I didn't really get to talk about here is that I see AI as a sociological process of acceptance. Once a technology becomes normalised in our lives, it stops being AI - like Google Maps, or autocorrect. So we only notice AI when it's causing problems, essentially. That's why the tension between mythologising AI and realities lately has been so stark, because suddenly companies wanted to sell dreams as products, but that's not really how AI works. It has to become so boring and everyday people don't even think about it - or so subtle we don't notice it.