Boodsy's 'The Shadow Side of AI'

Creatives vs Big Tech, Hallucinating Humans, Let's Play Sci-Fi, and Our Minds in Their Hands.

Mar 08, 2024

Boodsy claims to be a computer scientist, and rarely posts on Substack. The last posts were in November last year, and definitely worth your attention for its easy-to-understand and sane opinion about the effect of A.I. on us. Please read and consider subscribing.

The System Reboot

The Shadow Side of AI Part 1: Creatives vs Big Tech

In a world where free access to information arms the public with quick answers, you may have experienced friends who, after a few clicks on Google Search quickly become experts on a variety of topics. As a technologist and writer by trade, I prefer to stay in my lane and defer to domain experts when my knowledge fails. I have over the last two weeks lis…

a year ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Boodsy

The System Reboot

The Shadow Side of AI Part 2: Hallucinating Humans

In a previous post I recounted my troubled history with social media. Like many people today, I also quite instinctively feel an aversion towards much of the output of the so-called mainstream media houses. Or as Bill Bishop put it quite tersely: I agree with Bill. In more ways than one. Finding that delicate balance between keeping informed and over-consuming what…

a year ago · 7 likes · 3 comments · Boodsy

The System Reboot

The Shadow Side of AI Part 3: Let's play sci-fi

By crossing into a space whose curvature is no longer that of the real, nor that of truth, the era of simulation is inaugurated by a liquidation of all referentials…It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real…

a year ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Boodsy

The System Reboot

The Shadow Side of AI Part IV: Our minds in their hands

“This new medium is reprogramming us, yet we fail to grasp the radical paradigm shift that is underway. We are hobbling along after the very medium that, below our threshold of conscious decision, is definitively changing the ways that we act, perceive, feel, think, and live together. We are enraptured by the digital me…

a year ago · 12 likes · 8 comments · Boodsy

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Thanks for the shout-out Mike, much appreciated. I will be posting again soon. Life, as it sometimes does, has taken me on a little diversion.

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AI generated image, instruction "Baby with robot eyes".

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