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Authors Are Creating Time-Lapse Tik-Toks To Prove They Don’t Use AI

One young adult fantasy author “doesn't say a single word in the video, but her captions on the screen speak volumes. ‘Using GenAI to write a book doesn’t make you a writer, it makes you a thief,’ reads one.” - Wired

The Loneliness Epidemic And Its Link To Technology

Studies link loneliness and social isolation to increased mortality, dementia and stroke. Among adults, loneliness is linked to chronic diseases such as heart disease and obesity, and it is known to worsen job performance and commitment. - Aeon

AI Is Rewiring The Internet And… Of Course There Are Downsides

A growing body of research correlates persistent use of AI with a drop in critical thinking; humans become reliant on AI and unwilling, perhaps unable, to verify its work. As chatbots creep into every digital crevice, they may continue to degrade the web gradually, even gently. Today’s jankiness may, by tomorrow, simply be normal. - The Atlantic

So Why Does Everyone Seem To Be Identifying With Imposter Syndrome?

The phrase “impostor syndrome” often elicits a fierce sense of identification, especially from millennial and Gen X women. When I put out a call on Twitter for experiences of impostor syndrome, I was flooded with responses. - The New Yorker

AI Bots Are Scouring Our Museum and Library Collections. Is Our Culture Being Stolen?

"For example, one respondent’s online collection included a semi-private archive that normally received a handful of visitors per day. That archive was discovered by bots and immediately overwhelmed by the traffic, even though other parts of the system were able to handle similar volumes of traffic.” - 404 Media

How Medieval Monks Spread Culture And Learning

 The importance of monasteries for the emergence of the Renaissance can hardly be overstated. Their number increased many times over from the sixth to the fifteenth century, from about one thousand to over twenty thousand. They were agents of cultural transmission. - LitHub

What, Exactly, Defines Real Creativity?

What is the difference between great and mediocre art? Why do some songs, poems, and paintings move us profoundly, while others—even if they impress us with their technical skill—leave us cold? - Psychology Today

Our Notions Of Copyright May Be Standing In The Way Of Creativity

Who, exactly, owns the outputs of a generative model? The user who crafted the prompt? The developer who built the model? The artists whose works were ingested to train it? Will the social forces that shape artistic standing—critics, curators, tastemakers—still hold sway? Or will a new, AI-era hierarchy emerge? - MIT Technology Review

Defining The Art Of Genius

Generally, we want geniuses to be good with their minds rather than with their hands, but we can make an exception for a surgeon or a chef. We expect them to discover new realms of knowledge; Their talent should be incomprehensible to the masses, unless they’re a politician. - The New Yorker

The Urge To Isolationism Isn’t New

This exaltation of self-sufficiency and the downgrading of the value of trading links amounts to a profound break from the orthodoxy of globalisation – the idea that ever-greater interconnections between nations through trade would enhance the security and prosperity of all. - Aeon

The Schomburg Center, At 100, Is Ready For Its Day In The Sun

“Artists, writers and community leaders have gone the center to be inspired, root their work in a deep understanding of the vastness of the African diaspora, and spread word of the global accomplishments of Black people” - Seattle Times (AP)

Thanks To Our Phones, We Deeply Lack Boredom

And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)

How AI Is Remaking Google And The Internet

We've all noticed the changes in Google's approach to search, and most would agree that they have made finding reliable and accurate information harder. Regardless, Google's incredibly deep and broad index of the Internet is in demand. - Ars Technica

What Marshall McLuhan Teaches Us About Creative Inquiry

McLuhan foresaw that computing would enable new forms of pattern recognition, requiring fundamentally different ways of thinking — more integrative, relational and responsive — rather than simply accelerating old methods. - The Conversation

Your Brain’s Two Sides Hear Language Differently

Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. - The Conversation

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