James Gleick
Author and journalist, born in New York City in 1954, who writes about science and technology; author of Chaos, Genius, The Information and Time Travel, and for ten years an editor and reporter at The New York Times.
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The rush to AI seems to be repeating the web's pathologies: devaluing workers and creators, closed standards, overheated marketing and concentrated power.
So far, the rush to AI seems to be embracing the same pathologies: deprecation of workers and creators; secretive closed standards; overheated marketing; and consolidation of power.
around.comSaid 4 Dec 2025This on korrents
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Chatbots do not write; they rearrange fragments of earlier text, and as plagiarists they obscure their sources without transcending them.
Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.
around.comSaid 25 Jul 2025This on korrents
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The rush to AI seems to be repeating the web's pathologies: devaluing workers and creators, closed standards, overheated marketing and concentrated power.
So far, the rush to AI seems to be embracing the same pathologies: deprecation of workers and creators; secretive closed standards; overheated marketing; and consolidation of power.
How the Web Was Lost Said 4 Dec 2025
The European Union's Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act are a plausible blueprint for reining in the tech giants.
The European Union, whose governments are not in thrall to the mostly American tech giants, has provided a plausible blueprint with its Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.
How the Web Was Lost Said 4 Dec 2025
Chatbots do not write; they rearrange fragments of earlier text, and as plagiarists they obscure their sources without transcending them.
Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.
The Parrot in the Machine Said 25 Jul 2025
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For now the greatest danger from AI is not bigotry against machines but machines impersonating people.
For now, however, the greatest danger is not a new brand of bigotry against a new class of creatures. We need to reckon first with the opposite problem: impersonation.
The Parrot in the Machine Said 25 Jul 2025
Replacing human employees with AI without humans checking the output is reckless.
Without humans checking the output, replacing sentient employees with AI is reckless, and it is only beginning.
The Parrot in the Machine Said 25 Jul 2025
The Turing test is done, and what it has proven is that people can be fooled.
The Turing test is done. We’ve proven that we can be fooled.
The Parrot in the Machine Said 25 Jul 2025
Agency, which comes from acting in the world and living with the consequences, is what distinguishes people from machines.
Agency is what distinguishes us from machines. For biological creatures, reason and purpose come from acting in the world and experiencing the consequences.
The Case for Free Will Said 18 Jan 2024
There is no clear line between events in the brain and the conscious self, so it is right to say that we make choices.
But where is the line that separates events in my brain from the conscious witness? Let’s say instead: We make choices. We make decisions.
The Case for Free Will Said 18 Jan 2024
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Site around.com Books, Occasional Writing, and Other Outbursts
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