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Generative AI is fueling a communication revolution, the media artefacts are just fun side effects. It will fundamentally redefine how people express themselves and relate to each other. For example, translate will expand from lingo2lingo now, to complex cultural context2context
Communication patterns around the world
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Fear is the puppet master behind all the world's wicked manipulation & control schemes. But remember, you can't laugh and be afraid at the same time. Thanks to Computational Comedy, we now have the means to scale humor and turn the world into a comedy club.
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If you animate the ordinary, it will be extraordinary - Art by John P. Weiss
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Google recently pinned a post "Our principles for partnering with the music industry on AI technology" Despite the vague jargon being thrown around like "responsible AI use", it is clear that the emerging model they are proposing is tailored to, and dominated by, corporate giants like Google and UMG. Their commitment to supporting artists seems to be a mere platitude, with main focus being on creating a closed source system, optimized for their profit and control. This potential 'generative land-grab' is a chilling prospect in an already highly centralized media landscape.
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Useful GPT4 prompt: "Take the following short text and re-tell it in the 'hero's journey' format: ...."
Generative "tools for thinking" are underrated. Case in point: Screenwriters study for years to be able to fluently think in terms of "the hero's journey". Generative tools shorten that learning journey immensely and let anyone quickly experiment with a new way of thinking.
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The art of deliberately shifting ones perspective and exploring things from various levels of abstraction is an underappreciated yet invaluable practice.
Images from "Understanding Comics" - by Scott McCloud (1993) - #Art #Design #Philosophy #KM #Ideas
