Human Intelligence® News Update (12/30)
Humans create. AI imitates. Welcome to your weekly roundup about human creativity in the age of AI.
Human Creativity
HUMAN POETRY - Poet Joseph Fasano
Joseph Fasano is an award-winning writer whose poem “For the Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” went viral. Human Intelligence® was excited to feature Fasano in one of our last podcast episodes of the year, and he talked about his new book “The Teacher.” Hear the poet on the soul of poetry » [31-min watch]
HUMAN DRAMA - Playwright Tom Stoppard
In the last quarter of the year, we bid farewell to an amazing self-taught, self-educated, and self-driven dramatist, Tom Stoppard, whose plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and “Arcadia” changed the face of theater. As an avatar of genuine human creativity, we look to writers like Stoppard for inspiration. Read about Stoppard’s storied career » [15-min read]
HUMAN ART - How Genuine Humanity is a Selling Point
Technology has long been used to make art -- think cameras and CGI bringing monsters and superheroes to life. But to many creators, AI is an unequal playing field that comes at the cost of human creativity and jobs. Resistance is building from big names in movies, TV, and music. See who is pushing back » [2-min read]
HUMAN ALCHEMY - Can the Artificial Imitator Transmute Slop into Bona Fide “Art?”
Nope. Not according to developer, designer, and teacher Josh Collinsworth, who ups the ante by declaring, “AI will never fully displace creatives, because the moment AI can mass-produce any kind of creative work at scale, that work will stop being worth producing in the first place.” Short, inspiring, and worthy of a solidarity fist-bump. Read it » [4-min read]
Human VS Robot
SLOP IN THE WILD - Learning the “Tells” of AI Videos
Creator and The Verge editor Jeremy Carrusco has stitched together a growing compilation of short videos that teach folks how to quickly spot AI video red flags like “dreamy” vibes, “Sora Noise,” and wobbly eyes. You can catch them on his TikTok and Instagram. Start learning » [3-min read]
HOLLYWOOD VS AI - Actors & Directors Fight Back
Hollywood insiders united to fight for the future of the film industry with the launch of the new Creators Coalition on AI. The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories, hopes to act as a central coordinating hub to upgrade industry systems and institutions. Read more about the Creative Coalition » [10-min read]
LLM GOVERNANCE - Ireland Proposes 85 Recommendations on AI Oversight
The Emerald Isle’s Joint Committee on AI published a comprehensive interim report positioning the technology as a human-centered and rights-based societal system and offered 85 actions that best ensure AI development, regulation, and ethical considerations support democracy, equality, and the public trust. Learn more » [2-min read]
BIGGEST DECISION YET - The Moment Humans Lose Control?
According to Anthropic’s chief scientist and co-owner Jared Kaplan, humanity must decide by 2030 whether or not to take the “ultimate risk” of letting AI systems train themselves to become more powerful. If it gets the green light, the result could be a beneficial “intelligence explosion” … or the moment when humans end up losing control. Read the crazy » [3-min read]
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
SLOP IN ACTION - AI Generalizes Worse Than Humans
That’s the core theme running through this conversation between writer and podcaster Dwarkesh Patel and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. I.e., even with orders of magnitude more data and compute, AI models are unable to match human cognition. Watch or read » [96-min watch; 20-min read]
CO-OPTING THE EM-DASH - AI-Generated Text Gives Itself Away
Its signature style is getting easier and easier to spot, increasingly putting our ick meter on high alert: dense yet flat prose rife with em-dashes and thesaurus-worthy word choices that don’t quite align with real human-speak. NYT’s Sam Kriss offers his take on why AI writes like that. See if you agree » [10-min read]
CLAUDE-ENOMICS - “Smart” AI-Powered Vending Machine Lost Hundreds of $
The WSJ newsroom agreed to pilot Claudius Sennet, an autonomous Claude AI-powered snack dispenser that could order inventory, set prices, and respond to customer Qs. After setting all prices to $0, procuring a live beta fish, and giving away a PlayStation, the AI agent was fired. Enjoy the chaos » [5-min read]
FOOD FIGHT - Google AI Summaries Are Ruining Recipe Writers’ Livelihoods
AI Mode is mangling the recipes of food sites by merging disparate ingredient lists and instructions from multiple creators into Frankensteined versions. If that weren’t bad enough, for non-paywalled food sites that rely on ad revenue, their web traffic is in the tank. Read the slop » [3-min read]
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