Boast in the Shell: Why AI Art is Overhyped

In this episode, we’re talking about artificial intelligence. Not the sympathetic kind played by Haley Joel Osment, not the mean but hot kind like SHODAN, but the kind that generates content. There’s been a lot of hype lately about the power of AI to create writing, visual art, and music. In this episode, Wendy Xu joins us once again to talk about the rise of the machines.

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Links

• A sci-fi magazine has cut off submissions after a flood of AI-generated stories

• Lawyer who cited cases concocted by AI asks judge to spare sanctions

• The AI Feedback Loop: Researches Warn of Model Collapse as AI Trains on AI-Generated Content

• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

• Tor tried to hide AI art on a book cover, and it is a mess

• The Enigma of the Lascaux Bird Man: The Erection that Embodies the Mysteries of Prehistoric Art

• In Praise of Discomfort

• Folding Ideas: The Future is a Dead Mall