[nonostantement #383] - ai polyester / expertise crisis / cognitive offloading

Now with ZERO links about David Lynch Estate Auction!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with distinctive, sadistic, and intrepid stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi, I’m Joele, I live in the wilds of the internet so you don’t have to. Each week, I round up the most interesting links I stumble across while working (and occasionally procrastinating) in the digital world. I do this every Sunday. Since 2018.

YES, MUSIC FOR YOU: David Darling & The Wulu Bunun - Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

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Narahashi Asako, Kawaguchiko, (from the series half awake and half asleep in the water), 2003

#PEOPLE

• GenAI is Our Polyester
  The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run

• Illustrators call out journals and news sites for using AI art
  Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish depictions.

• we're not bored anymore, and we should be
  postcard 57: on the importance of boredom, my relationship with my phone, and things you can do without it

• Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
  With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

• Instagram account dedicated to masturbation suspended after allegedly infringing University of Melbourne’s trademark
  One now-deleted post described the ‘best room to goon in on all of campus’ and received more than 12,000 likes

• Hear Me Out: What If Gen Xers Are Actually the Cool Ones?
  Gen Z this, millennials that... but what of our weirdo slacker predecessors?

• Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
  By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge and deflates those who look down on them.

• Cognitive Offloading
  Delegating our thinking

#TECH

• Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times
  Anthropic previously claimed to have stopped crawling Reddit in May of 2024.

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• You're Not Ready
  Seems bad out there. Unfortunately, it can always get worse. From evil hacker AI to world-changing cyberattacks, WIRED envisions the future you haven't prepared for.

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