by Dan Moren
Getting a letter from a friend written with AI
Fascinating blog post from Panic designer Neven Mrgan about the feeling of getting a letter from a friend written by AI:
Where exactly would I draw the line between helpful features (“make this red shirt green instead”) and offensive takeovers (“generate an album cover in the style of barney bubbles, award-winning”)? As I said, until this email I was more bored than enraged by AI, so I didn’t have an immediate answer. I use computer crap all the time—it’s pretty cool! So what was different here? I thought I’d come up with some comparisons that capture different aspects of my friend’s AI email, in order to see how I feel about them.
I think that more than maybe any other technology in my lifetime, AI is going to be profoundly divisive in how it’s received by users.