Nature has just published a long feature warning that generative artificial intelligence is flattening our collective imagination, and has done so without printing a single dissenting voice — an irony I leave the reader to enjoy. I want to take the feature by conceding its central empirical claim. The most useful number comes from Holzner…
Category: AI and its effects
The Consultant: A magic realistic short story
This is a short story written by Claude AI about old things and human work that should not really get lost. This short story is written in the style of magic realism, influenced by Hubert Lampo’s “The Coming of Joachim Stiller”. The Consultant On the thirty-first of December, the Ministry of Productivity received a visitor…