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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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AFFS
Hello
#Laughter
On Tyranny ¿‘Take Responsibility for the Face of the World #Art ¿( #music ) #SacredMusic#Dreamer #Dream # Dreaming
https://www.inannareturns.com#IandThou
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AFFS
Hello
#Laughter
On Tyranny ¿‘Take Responsibility for the Face of the World #Art ¿( #music ) #SacredMusic#Dreamer #Dream # Dreaming
https://www.inannareturns.com#IandThou
https://www.alunajoy.com/2007nov.html -
AFFS
Hello
#Laughter
On Tyranny ¿‘Take Responsibility for the Face of the World #Art ¿( #music ) #SacredMusic#Dreamer #Dream # Dreaming
https://www.inannareturns.com#IandThou
https://www.alunajoy.com/2007nov.html -
AFFS
Hello
#Laughter
On Tyranny ¿‘Take Responsibility for the Face of the World #Art ¿( #music ) #SacredMusic#Dreamer #Dream # Dreaming
https://www.inannareturns.com#IandThou
https://www.alunajoy.com/2007nov.html -
Yeah, it helps us making sense of many things, doesn't it. Certainly as regards the current genAI cultural tectonic shift.
I've also used the "I and Thou" idea to make sense of Mastodon! See, eg, here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114646867916663363
Or here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/114439824273622643
Re-reading these old posts of mine I realise how much I love the Fedi, and I remember the absolute liberation I felt when I arrived at these shores in November 2022. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing. Good things can and do happen.
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A thoughtful set of reflections, thank you. You urge us (and yourself) to accept that we live in an era of impurity, and to look out for the good strands in the work of those who submit to the evils of genAI.
I will try to learn from your reflections. Not sure whether I can accept those flirtations with the genAI devil. For me the key word is not Purity but Authenticity. Personal authenticity, human agency, personhood --- these are under unprecedented attack and people seem to enjoy it and celebrate it. But you are right, each of us is one big mess of contradictions and I must remain open to those around me.
I have always been a follower of Martin Buber's contradistinction of "I and Thou" vs "It and He". First and second person, not third and third person. Those who understood this distinction have always been in a minority, so perhaps the current moral catastrophy is just part of an ongoing forever-catastrophy!