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All of this brings me to AI art (or AI "art"). In his essay on the "eerieness" of AI art, @henryfarrell quotes Mark Fisher's "The Weird and the Eerie":

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-language-models-are-uncanny

"Eeriness" here is defined as "when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something." AI is eerie because it produces the seeming of intent, without any intender:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

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Large Language Models are Uncanny

Like capitalism, LLMs are haunted: voids that seem to speak

^{Henry Farrell (Programmable Mutter)}

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They maintain the pretense of personality, but they have no mind, only action that is the crescendo of an orchestra of improvised instruments played by hundreds or thousands of employees and a handful of executives who are often working directly against one another:

https://locusmag.com/2022/03/cory-doctorow-vertically-challenged/

The corporation is - as @cstross has it - the "slow AI" that is slowly converting our planet to the long-prophesied grey goo (or, more prosaically, wildfire ashes and boiled oceans).

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Cory Doctorow: Vertically Challenged

Science fiction has a longstanding love-hate relationship with the tech tycoon. The literature is full of billionaire inventors, sometimes painted as system-bucking heroes, at other times as megalo…

^{Locus Online}

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In his 2018 short story "Noon in the antilibrary," @KarlSchroeder describes an "antilibrary" as an endlessly deep anaerobic lagoon of generative botshit:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/18/104097/noon-in-the-antilibrary/

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Noon in the antilibrary

Science fiction: What happens when fake news is everywhere?

^{Karl Schroeder (MIT Technology Review)}

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> The antilibrary is a generative AI system that can produce entire librarys’-worth of fake books with fake authors, fake citations by other fake experts with their own fake books and biographies and fake social media accounts, on-demand and instantly. It was speculation in 2018; it’s possible now. Creating an antilibrary is just a matter of investing in a sufficient number of graphics cards and electricity.

https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/after-the-internet

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After the Internet

There is no "online world." That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what can take its place?

^{Karl Schroeder (Unapocalyptic)}

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