Degenerate: Against Education at Scale
Today's bird is the Adélie penguin; the subject of today's email, the condiment – both attempts to reference Pittsburgh PA, where I'm in town to speak at a technology and ethics conference at Duquesne University. I am still very much in recovery mode from Sunday&
"AI slop is winning," writes The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel. By volume alone, slop may be the most visible and successful by-product of the generative-AI era to date. It is also a hallmark of what I’ve previously described as a collective delusion around artificial intelligence—where