Heyyyy check out this leaked banger from Frank Ocean OH WAIT it’s an AI-generated album that someone briefly passed off as Frank Ocean. Welp.

How about some Dolly instead.

*The image above is also an AI-generated Frank Ocean cover, which I found on Google search, which, incidentally, is another service about to be powered by AI.

Almost as good as a leak: Ted Chiang outside the New Yorker paywall asking, “Will A.I. Become The New McKinsey?”

Chiang’s actual essay transcends this huge burn of a headline, if you can believe it, and it’s well timed, the week after Google fanned the flame and the internet became this:

So, the McKinsey bit: In their darkest light, consulting firms are known for executing on messy, human-collatoral-involving, bottom-line-enhancing things that corporations don’t want to take responsibility for. Guess what else is like that.

“Is there a way for A.I. to do something other than sharpen the knife blade of capitalism?” Chiang asks, noting, “whenever I criticize capitalism, I’m not criticizing the idea of selling things; I’m criticizing the idea that people who have lots of money get to wield power over people who actually work… By building A.I. to do jobs previously performed by people, A.I. researchers are increasing the concentration of wealth to such extreme levels that the only way to avoid societal collapse is for the government to step in.”

TELL ‘EM.

This week alone 37 NEW CRAZY AI tools have launched. Here is what you need to know if you don’t wanna fall behind:
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Tik Tok must be using plenty of A.I., but let’s take this moment to applaud a moment of human ingenuity. Rumor has it that their parent company Byte Dance has a publishing project in the works — yes, book publishing — which could be one of their most interesting moves to date. See, one of the thriving corners of Tik Tok is #BookTok, which, with apologies to GoodReads, is *the* place online where people go to talk about what they’re reading. That means Tik Tok has a ton of data on what people read and how and why. So now when they start publishing their own books, they they can actually market them effectively, which no publishing company has been able to do since Amazon monopolized the bookselling market and started hoarding all the sales data. Of course, this Tik Tok development keeps publishing power in the hands of tech giants, solving nothing for traditional publishing houses. What do we have to do for a book business that’s not vertically integrated? Sacrifice Sally Roony on an altar or something? Cause we’ll do it!

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