Reversion to the Slop

I just learned of a study that illustrated that stories created by “AI” are essentially similar structurally. I am completely unsurprised by this, as I see this type of chat bot to basically be a mean reversion machine. And once again, what is being promised is far from what exists. Once again, it seems far … Read more

Innovation and Enshittification

I, like many people around 40, had a computer and played computer games years before I ever got online. I remember my mother showing me email when I was ten or so years old, and I barely cared. Around then, I used to go to my friend’s house after school to play computer games he … Read more

Free Lunch

I read a lot of investing newsletters, and it’s truly remarkable how similar they are. In one I just got, it was extolling the virtues of AI bots for web search, and the essential lesson was to not block (so-called) AI bots, because that bot traffic yields useful content. Setting aside many facets of that, … Read more