> From: [email protected] > [Regarding https://gist.github.com/blu-jabr [I've somehow lost the > record of where John sent that out. -DRW]]
Well, it reads like you've written it to be read by a very select community of people with a *lot* of common knowledge. That is, I couldn't make hide nor hair of it. If you want this to be a "manifesto", you need to orient it toward a less specialist audience. > From: Dan Ritter <[email protected]> > The weather is getting better: I'm going to go for more outside > exercise. Explore the big blue room. Marvel at its resolution and rendering speed. -- from alt.sysadmin.recovery > From: Rich Pieri <[email protected]> > Every creative type I > know -- authors, actors, artists, gamesmasters, you name it -- who has > tried using a chatbot agrees that chatbots don't help their creativity. > If anything, they find chatbots hinder their creativity. The difficulty is that the actual market for "creativity" is fairly small; most "creative types" are employed as "illustrators", that is, the customer wants some sort of IP that has certain properties, doesn't care about how unique it is, and is price-sensitive. The result is you get e.g. https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fb932a46-6b89-4eba-99c3-a9860876c484_1126x614.jpeg It would have taken an actual artist at least a couple of hours to produce that, but it's "Art by Nano Banana 2", it gets the job done, and it costs 1/10 as much. We define disruptive technologies as those that offer "good enough" solutions to new groups of consumers, often at radically lower prices. -- Scott Anthony and Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation is the process of cheap, low-quality products ultimately displacing expensive, high-quality products, typically ruining the prospects of organizations caught on the losing side. -- Rich Apodaca [And the prospects of individuals caught on the losing side.] Dale _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
