[ExI] Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Music Fails

[Will Steinberg]

best I got:

This group is hollowing out. AI posts keep multiplying and drain away real
exchange. The TEXTURE of thought is gone. No context, no synthesis, no
argument, no lived stake. Only grey remains. A space supposedly devoted to
transhuman possibility and aesthetic risk is rotting in anti aesthetic
drift.
And that was with a lot of effort giving tweak prompts.   I.e. HUMAN
AESTHETIC INTERVENTION, aka discourse.


I use chatgpt all the time for research, brainstorming, trivia, diy advice,
recipe inspiration, etc.  But it is a personal tool that I treat as
interior, not something to chuck out there whole hog, even with the tiny
qualifier “I asked ChatGPT…”

Idk it strikes me the wrong way.  It’s like how Zizek talked about using AI
to take tests that AI grades and people can spend their time on nobler
pursuits.  But this is doing the same thing WITH those nobler pursuits!  If
robots can do all our work, all we have is art and discourse.  Beware
supplanting this.  Beyond it there is nothing—you will become the robot

<https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68d8335970308191ba3caa8591604e35>

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Sept 2025 at 19:20, spike jones via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > Well ja.  I do not and will not use the term "definitively" for it was
> used to death in the office where I worked for years, and became a most
> annoying filler word to replace the tried and true "for sure."
> >
> > I didn't try to insert spike-isms.
> > spike
> > _______________________________________________
>
> The current AIs are smart enough to write in the style of any author
> they have been trained on.
> Or in the style of a young child, or a learned professor, etc.
> For a specific person, you just need to link to a collection of their
> writing for more training.
>
> BillK
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