TODAY: In 1816, Jane Austen responds to a letter from the Prince Regent suggesting she write a historic romance, saying, “Romantasy won’t be a thing for 200 years.”
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Imogen West-Knights readShy Girl: “The thing that ultimately convinced me that AI had had a hand in the text I was reading was a feeling: the sense, quite literally, of a lack of a person behind the words.” | Slate
“But there is no god of technology, only human choices; no inevitabilities in the future of AI, only clever marketing schemes trying to convince us otherwise.” Friction-maxxing, the future, and why AI isn’t destiny. | The Baffler
