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Exploring tools, methods, ideas, and culture at the beginning of the AI boom from the center of San Francisco. And using these tools to preserve how we embrace the moment.
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You’re not going to believe this, but this is absolutely going to be possible—or, depending on how demanding you are about the meaning of “possible,” already is—with current technology.
Let me show you what I’m talking about.
Imagine a small appliance sitting on the counter in a pleasant office k…
AI can now make almost anything. A fake blockbuster trailer. A fake symphony. A fake oil painting. A fake novel. A fake proof. The first reaction is obvious: look what we can do now.
But that may be the least interesting part.
In this episode, we explore why the next stage of AI creation may not be…
For the past four years, we’ve been told two stories about AI.
The first is that people hate it.
The second is that everyone keeps using it.
Both stories can’t be the whole story.
In this episode, we pull apart one of the strangest cultural phenomena of the AI era: how a technology can be denou…
What if students aren’t booing AI because they hate technology, but because they can smell the difference between a tool that helps them think and a machine that helps someone else avoid thinking?
In this episode, I want to poke at that difference with a tuning fork. We’ll visit Oberlin, a conserv…
Well, let me start by saying this…
I get you.
I actually do.
All you anti-AI music people, you’re not crazy. You’re not villains. You’re not sitting there like some cartoon bad guy stroking a cat going, “Yes… let us crush creativity.”
No, you think you’re doing the exact opposite.
You’re sitting th…
A man considers what it means to move through the world without leaving a mark—and whether recognition, when it comes, is enough. Spare, reflective, and unsettling.
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Jordan
[Orchestral overture]
Imagine a new technology drops today, right?
And the government immediately moves to ban it.
They claim it’s going to fundamentally corrupt the youth and cause the absolute collapse of the state.
You’d …
What to do when you create an Amblongus pie while using an AI coding assistant, or vibe coding. Get full access to The Generative Gazette at generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe
Over the past few years the AI ecosystem has been assembling itself into layers.
First came the models. Then came the tools that allow those models to interact with the world. Now we’re beginning to see protocols that let AI agents communicate with each other and frameworks that help orchestrate th…
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