Worthy Read: “All My Hobbies Are Getting Slopped Up, And It’s Exhausting”

Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Chris Person / Aftermath: Is this AI?” my girlfriend will ask me, pointing to a post on TikTok or Instagram. If you’re online, you ask this question every single day. As the years have gone on and the models have gotten deceptively better, the talent of discerning what is and is not AI has entered into an arms race with what the models are capable of. This learned suspicion is fatiguing, and being baited and switched is like going out to see a movie only to be confronted with a video of someone describing a boring dream instead. There is no baseline for the veracity of images; they start at suspicion now. This has all become the most convoluted and exhausting when it comes to my hobbies. I am a man who cares deeply about open source software, particularly projects that destroy the barriers between existing platforms. I care about accuracy in retro gaming quite a bit; I…